Guðrún Steingrímsdóttir

ID: 19393
Date of birth : 1870
Place of birth : Borgarfjarðarsýsla

Guðrún Steingrímsdóttir was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on October 5, 1870.

Spouse: October 21, 1890 Guðmundur Elías Guðmundsson b. in Árnessýsla on April 29, 1867, d. in Washington on September 29, 1957. He took the last name Goodman in the west.

Children: 1. Elísabet b. November 4, 1891, died as a child in Iceland 2. Matthías b. January 29, 1893 3. Sigrún b. August 8, 1894 4. Guðmundur b. July 30, 1897 5. Elísabet b.  November 5, 1898, died in childhood 6. Henrietta Elísabet b. September 23, 1901, d. November 25, 1952 7. Valtýr b. July 10, 1904 8. Guðrún Dagmar b. May 2, 1906 9. Kristín Esther b. July 20, 1907 10. Agnes Ísafold b. February 28, 1911, 11. Steinunn Jóna b. February 4, 1915 12. Þórhallur Garðar b. February 4, 1917.

They came west to N. Dakota in 1900 and lived there two years. They next moved to Winnipegosis, Manitoba in 1902 and from there in 1904 to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan where they lived until 1923. They then moved to Point Roberts, Washington and made it their home for 26 years. Guðmundur lived his last years at Stafholt in Blaine.