ID: 9423
Date of birth : 1872
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1949
Guðný Helgadóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1872. She died in Gimli in 1949.
Spouse: Björn Jósefsson b. 1855 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. in Saskatchewan on January 12, 1919.
Children: 1. Helgi 2. Vilhjálmur 3. Kristján 4. Málmfríður 5. Sigurveig. Björn also had these children with his first wife: 1. Jóhann 2. Lína d. 1916.
Björn came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876. He lived there until 1881 when he took land probably in the Argyle Settlement. He later moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and lived in the Kandahar/Dafoe area.