Sigríður Sigmundsdóttir

ID: 1571
Date of birth : 1854
Place of birth : A. Skaftafellssýsla
Date of death : 1927

Sigríður Sigmundsdóttir was born in E. Skaftafellssýsla in 1854. She died in 1927 in Manitoba.

Spouse: Stefán Halldórsson b. 1845 in Lónssveit in E. Skaftafellssýsla.

Children: Born in Iceland: 1. Halldór b. 1882 2. Sigurjón b. 1885 3. Vilborg b. 1891 d. young in the west. Born in the west: 4. Sigmundur 5. Steinunn Sigurbjörg 6. Sigurborg 7. Sigríður.

They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1893 and settled in the Ísafold Settlement.  From there they went to Ökrum in the Árnes Settlement, next to Gimli and from there to Selkirk where they lived for 9 years. They moved west to Merwin, Saskatchewan in 1910 and to Winnipegosis in 1914.