Sigurbjörg Sigfúsdóttir

ID: 7021
Date of birth : 1859
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla

Sigurbjörg Sigfúsdóttir was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1859.

Spouse: December 24, 1895 Sveinn Árnason b. in N. Múlasýsla in 1869.

Children: 1. Árný Soffía b. in the Akra Settlement, N. Dakota on February 2, 1896 2. Ingigerður Andrea Kristín b. in Hallson, ND on December 13, 1896 3. Sigurbjörg Anna b. in the Brown Settlement, Manitoba on July 29, 1902 4. Edna Rannveig Stefanía b. in the Brown Settlement on November 12, 1905

Sigurbjörg came west in 1876 with her parents, Sigfús Gíslason and Rannveig Árnadóttir. They settled in the Akra Settlement in N. Dakota. Sveinn came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1889. He moved to Akra, N. Dakota and worked there as a teacher. He moved to the Brown Settlement in Manitoba in 1889 but moved back to N. Dakota in 1906. They later moved west to the Pacific and lived in Bremerton, Washington and later in Seattle.