ID: 9672
Date of birth : 1870
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Sigurveig Jóhannsdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1870.
Spouse: 1) 1888 Björn Jósefsson b. 1855 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. in Saskatchewan on January 12, 1919.
Children: 1. Jóhann 2. Lína d. 1916.
Sigurveig came west in 1878 with her parents, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Guðrún Ólafsdóttir. Björn came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876. He lived there until 1881 when he took land probably in the Argyle Settlement. They moved in 1909 to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and lived in the Kandahar/Dafoe area.