ID: 5696
Single parent
Date of birth : 1844
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1924
Þorbjörg Þorsteinsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1844. She died in Manitoba on March 23, 1924.
Spouse: Ísleifur Jónsson b. in Strandasýsla on August 21, 1841, d. in Manitoba on August 11, 1927. He took his father’s last name Ísleifsson in the west.
Children: 1. Jón b. 1879 2. Björn b. 1883, d. 1917 3. Ísleifur b. 1884 4. Þorsteinn b. 1885
They came west in 1887 to New Iceland and lived there four years. They bought land in the Argyle Settlement and moved there in 1891. They moved from there to Glenboro in 1911.