ID: 19694
Date of birth : 1853
Place of birth : Strandasýsla
Date of death : 1945
Guðbjörg Björnsdóttir was born in Strandasýsla on July 11, 1853. She died on May 5, 1945 in Alberta.
Spouse: 1890 Guðmundur Þorláksson b. in Strandasýsla on November 7, 1859, d. in Markerville, Alberta on November 1, 1935. He took the last name Thorlakson in the west.
Children: 1. Björn b. 1893 in Alberta, d. 1980. Two other children died in childhood.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and spent the first winter in N. Dakota. They moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1888 where they lived three years. They made their way north to Markerville and took land on the Medecine river and lived there after that.