ID: 5363
Date of birth : 1849
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Jóhannes Ólafsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1849.
Spouse: Margrét Bjarnadóttir b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1850
Children: 1. Bjarni b. 1886 2. Guðlaugur b. in the west. Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, b. 1877, was Margrét’s daughter and came west with them.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887. They lived in New Iceland, but then took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and moved there in 1909. They later sold the land and moved back to New Iceland.