Guðrún Jakobsdóttir

ID: 5700
Date of birth : 1863
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1894

Guðrún Jakobsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1863. She died on October 24, 1894.

Spouse: January 16, 1889 Jón Einarsson b. February 18, 1862 in Strandasýsla.

Children: 1. Kristín 2. Herdís Margrét b. August 8, 1891.

Guðrún came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887, while Jón came west to Winnipeg in 1888. There he worked mainly building houses, but in 1907 he moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and took land in the Foam Lake community.