Margrét Andrésdóttir Photo: RbQ
Margrét Andrésdóttir was born in New Iceland in 1888. She died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in the spring of 1941. She took the name Margaret Solvason in the Lakes Settlement.
Spouse: Sveinn Sveinsson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1870, d. in Kandahar in the Lakes Settlement in 1933. He took the last name Solvason in the west.
Children: 1. Óskar Sveinn 2. Karl Vilhjálmur 3. Sigrún Olga 4. Haraldur Andrés 5. Monika Þorbjörg Lilja 6. Sveinn Þórður.
Margrét was the daughter of Andrés Eyjólfsson from S. Múlasýsla and his wife Kristín Árnadóttir from the same sýsla. Sveinn came west with his parents in 1887 to Winnipeg, Manitoba. They moved first to New Iceland and from there in 1890 to Mountain, N. Dakota and later to Selkirk, Manitoba. In 1907, Sveinn and Margrét moved to land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in the Kandahar/Dafoe area.