ID: 1899
Date of birth : 1885
Place of birth : Gullbringusýsla
Date of death : 1964
Þórður Ágúst Björnsson was born in Gullbringusýsla in 1885. He died in Wynyard, Saskatchewan on February 5, 1964.
Spouse: 1) 1917 Ingunn Hjartardóttir b. in N. Dakota. They divorced in 1929. 2) Mabel Reid.
Children: With Ingunn: 1. Ágústa Björg b. June 26, 1923.
Þórður came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1898 with his parents who settled in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1906. Likewise, he took land there. Ingunn was the daughter of Hjörtur Friðriksson Bjarnason and Guðrún Grímólfsdóttir. Hjörtur was born in New Iceland, while Guðrún was born in 1877 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla.