ID: 7489
Date of birth : 1854
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1911
Sigurbjörg Hannesdóttir was born in 1854 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died in Manitoba on February 27, 1911.
Spouse: Jónas Guðmundsson b. February 24, 1860, d. in Winnipeg on August 5, 1943. He took the name Jonas Middal Wilson in the west.
Sigurbjörg came west to Manitoba in 1876 and settled in Winnipeg. Jónas came west to Ontario in 1874 with his mother, Helga Jónasdóttir, and siblings. He was in Kinmount the first year, but then moved to New Iceland. He and his brother Jósef took lands in N. Dakota, but he did not live there and instead settled in Winnipeg.