ID: 8573
Date of birth : 1856
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Albína Þorsteinsdóttir Photo: VÍÆ V
Albína Þorsteinsdóttir was born on March 7, 1856 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla.
Spouse: November 26, 1881 in a church in Akureyri; Benedikt Jóelsson b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1851
Children: 1.Þorgerður b. November 15, 1884 2. Kristín Karlotta b. August 11, 1891. Both born in Akureyri.
They came west in 1905 and were first in Winnipeg. A year later they moved to the Narrows on Lake Manitoba, then in 1908 they moved to the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan, and they settled near Foam Lake.