Guðjón Sigurðsson was born on July 6, 1844 in Dalasýsla. He died on April 5, 1888 in Canada. Unmarried and childless. He came west to Canada about 1880. He may have lived in Saskatchewan.
Helga Sigvaldadóttir
Helga Sigvaldadóttir was born in Mýrasýsla on January 23, 1845. She died in Winnipeg on July 12, 1935. Spouse: Guðjón Eggertsson b. October 10, 1853 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla, d. March 9, 1923 in Winnipeg. Children: 1. Eggert Frímann b. 1880, more children were born in the west. They came west to Winnipeg in 1884 and lived there.
Guðjón Eggertsson
Guðjón Eggertsson was born on October 10, 1853 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla. He died on March 9, 1923 in Winnipeg. Spouse: Helga Sigvaldadóttir b. in Mýrasýsla on January 23, 1845, d. July 12, 1935. Children: 1. Eggert Frímann b. 1880, more children were born in the west. They came west to Winnipeg in 1884 and lived there.
Vigfús Jónsson
Vigfús Jónsson was born in N. Múlasýsla on February 15, 1872. He died in Blaine, Washington in 1971. He took the last name Vopni in the west. Spouse: Guðbjörg Guðbrandsdóttir b May 22, 1863. Childless. Vigfús settled in Vancouver and there he met Guðbjörg after 1906. She was a recent widow, her husband Jón Jónsson from Miðdalir died in …
Friðrika Friðriksdóttir
Friðrika Friðriksdóttir was born on March 27, 1879 in Winnipeg. She died in the city on February 26, 1952. Spouse: September 25, 1877 Halldór Þórólfsson b. October 26, 1879 in Dalasýsla, d. in Winnipeg on January 28, 1956. Children: 1. Pearl b. September 25, 1904 2. Frank b. 1914, d. 1975. Friðrika was the daughter of Friðrik Sigurbjörnsson from Sjávarland in …
Emilía Pálsdóttir
Emilía Pálsdóttir was born on September 30, 1890 in Dalasýsla. Spouse: Hans Bloch Nielsen b. April 15, 1874 in Denmark. Children: 1. Marvina Shine b. December 28, 1912 2. Edward Christian b. January 25, 1918 3. Elmer Byron b. July 18, 1928. Emilía moved to Denmark in 1910 and married there. She moved to Connecticut in the United States and …
Elín Guðmundsdóttir
Elín Guðmundsdóttir was born on December 8, 1852 in Dalasýsla. She died in New Iceland in 1876. Spouse: Sigurður Jósúa Björnsson b. November 11, 1848, d. 1923 in California. Childless. They came west in 1874 to Ontario, Canada. They were in Collingwood the first year, but then moved west to New Iceland in 1875.
Egill Jónsson
Egill Jónsson was born on October 9, 1857 in Dalasýsla. Unmarried and childless. He grew up at Dagverðarnes and was likely a laborer in many places before he went west. The date of departure to the west is unclear as is his date of death. One source says he died around 1911 and worked in a sugar factory in Chicago. …
Eggertína B Eggertsdóttir
Eggertína Björnfríður Eggertsdóttir was born on October 23, 1870 in Dalasýsla. She died in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota on August 12, 1960. Unmarried. Children: 1. Eggert Björn Júlíusson (Eyford) b. December 27, 1903 in Victoria, d. September 7, 1953. She came west across the sea after 1890 and was living in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia in …
Þóra Halldórsdóttir
Þóra Halldórsdóttir was born in Snæfellsnessýsla in 1854. Spouse: 1) Björn Finnsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1832, d. in Manitoba on June 9, 1906. 2) Þórarinn Stefánsson of Þingeyjarsýsla. Childless Þóra came west before the turn of the century to Winnipeg, Manitoba. She made her way from there west to the Argyle Settlement where she married Björn. Björn had come …
