ID: 15589
Born west
Date of birth : 1879
Place of birth : Rosseau
Date of death : 1946
Steingrímur Brynjólfsson was born on April 7, 1879 in Rosseau, Ontario, Canada. He died in Saskatchewan on April 16, 1946. He was known as Steingrimur B. Johnson and Grimsi Johnson in the west.
Spouse: July 17, 1912 Kristjana Jakobína Jónsdóttir b. January 26, 1883 in N. Múlasýsla. She took the last name Westdal in the west.
Children: 1. Jón Einar b. June 29, 1914 2. Kristrún Ingibjörg Guðrún b. October 6, 1918 3. Alda Jakobína Thelma b. April 11, 1921
Steingrímur moved with his parents and siblings to N. Dakota in 1884 and then to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905. Kristjana arrived there from Iceland in 1904. Steingrímur took land just south of Wynyard and they lived there.