ID: 6815
Date of birth : 1859
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1942
Bjarni Árnason was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1859. He died on January 17, 1942 in Manitoba.
Spouse: Ástríður Sigurðardóttir b. 1862 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. August 13, 1940
Children: All born in Iceland: 1. Kristján 2. Arnbjörg b. 1893 3. Guðrún b. 1895
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1900 and first lived in Akra, N. Dakota. They moved from there in 1903 to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan where they lived in the Foam Lake area. They moved to Winnipegosis in 1915.