ID: 11309
Date of birth : 1888
Place of birth : Ísafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1943
Sigurlína Pétursdóttir was born September 20, 1888 in Ísafjarðarsýsla. She died in San Diego on October 31, 1943. She took the name Lena Peterson in the west.
Spouse: An American, John Stewart.
Children: Information needed.
Sigurlína came west to Winnipeg in 1891 with her mother, Kristín Sigurðardóttir, and her grandmother, Húnbjörg Guðmundsdóttir. Her father, Pétur Bjarnason arrived there in the west a year later. Sigurlína was taken in as a foster child by Helga Jónsdóttir from Selsker and she grew up in the Lundar Settlement.