Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir

ID: 10121
Date of birth : 1827
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1904

Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1827. She died in Winnipeg in 1904.

Spouse: Björn Árnason b. 1830 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. in the Árnes Settlement on September 1, 1909.

Children: 1. Guðmundur b. 1858 2. Árni b. 1862 3. Jóhanna b. 1865 4. Stefán b. 1869.

They came west to Ontario in Canada in 1874 and settled in Kinmount. They moved from there to Winnipeg, Manitoba where they lived a few years. Björn was a pioneer settler in the Akra Settlement in N. Dakota in 1882 at Sandy Hills north of the Tongue River.