ID: 11195
Date of birth : 1877
Place of birth : Snæfellsnessýsla
Date of death : 1961
Ólafur, Jensína with Anna, Valtýr, and Margrét Photo: RbQ
Jensína Guðrún Sveinsdóttir was born in Snæfellsnessýsla in 1877. She died on June 6, 1961.
Spouse: Ólafur Oddsson b. in Dalasýsla on February 20, 1876, d. in Saskatchewan on October 16, 1961. He had the name Olafur O. Magnusson in the west.
Children: 1. Margrét Oddrún 2. Anna Jónína 3. Valtýr.
Ólafur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his parents in 1886 and went with them to N. Dakota, and then on to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905 where he took land in the Wynyard community. Jensína came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba at just 11 years old in 1888.