ID: 3562
Date of birth : 1835
Place of birth : Hnappadalssýsla
Date of death : 1905
Jóhanna Narfadóttir and Þorgils Árnason Photo: WtW
Þorgils Árnason was born in Hnappadalssýsla in 1835. He died in Winnipeg on December 25, 1905.
Spouse: Jóhanna Narfadóttir b. 1830 in Hnappadalssýsla.
Children: 1: Björn b. 1863 2. Magnús b. 1864 3. Finnbogi b. 1866. Their eldest son was Þorgils Guðbrandur b. 1853. He did not come west.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883, Björn had arrived the year before. Þorgils practiced medicine in Winnipeg but later moved north to Siberia in the Lundar Settlement. They lived there for a while but later moved back to Winnipeg.