Jón Gíslason was born in Shawano County in Wisconsin on February 7, 1876. He had the name John Dalman in Manitoba. Spouse: Sigríður b. in Iceland on May 7, 1879. She took the name Sarah Dalman in the west. Children: 1. Leonard b. 1901 2. Isabel b. 1904 3. Ferdinand b. 1905 4. Ninna b. 1908 5. Aurora b. 1911 …
Bjarni Helgason
Bjarni Helgason was born in Húnavatnssýsla on May 10, 1832. He died in Wynyard, Saskatchewan on June 16, 1922. Spouse: Helga Jónasdóttir b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1837, d. in Manitoba on November 19, 1915. Children: 1. Ósk b. March 12, 1862 2. Sigríður b. March 22, 1864 3. Jóhann b. December 7, 1865 4. Helgi b. June 7, 1867 5. Tryggvi …
Ingibjörg K Magnúsdóttir
Ingibjörg Katrín Magnúsdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on May 15, 1868. She died on September 29, 1926 in Minneapolis. She took the name Emma K. Bjering in the west. Unmarried and childless. She came west to Minnesota in 1888 with her mother, Vilhelmína Bjering, siblings and that is where they settled. She lived in Minneapolis the rest of her …
Hannes Skúlason
Hannes Skúlason was born in Gimli in New Iceland in 1878. He died in Wynyard, Saskatchewan in 1951. He took the last name Anderson in the west. Spouse: 1908 Margrét Guðmundsdóttir b. December 23, 1888 in Rangárvallasýsla, d. in Wynyard 1949. Children: 1. Sigríður 2. Lára 3. Skúli 4. Kristín (Christine) 5. William 6. Louisa 7. Karl (Carl) 8. Erlendur …
Sigríður Gísladóttir
Sigríður Gísladóttir was born in 1847 in Iceland. Spouse: Guðmundur Vigfússon b. in Iceland in 1847. He took the last name Goodman in the west. Children: Jóhanna (Annie) Ingibjörg b. May 17, 1889 2. Lilly b. 1891 3. Vigfús b. 1894. They came west in 1887 and first settled in Duluth, Minnesota. There Jóhanna was baptized by Rev. Níels Steingrími Thorlaksson, …
Guðmundur Vigfússon
Guðmundur Vigfússon was born in Iceland in 1847. He took the last name Goodman in the west. Spouse: Sigríður Gísladóttir b. 1847 in Iceland. Children: Jóhanna (Annie) Ingibjörg b. May 17, 1889 2. Lilly b. 1891 3. Vigfús b. 1894. They came west in 1887 and first settled in Duluth, Minnesota. There, Jóhanna was baptized by Reverend Níels Steingrímur Thorlaksson, …
Ingveldur Ingimundardóttir
Ingveldur Ingimundardóttir was born on August 6, 1859 in Árnessýsla. He died on May 30, 1957 in St. Louis County in Minnesota. She took the name Inga Bachman in the west. Spouse: Jón Þorsteinsson b. December 4, 1859 in Hrútafjörður in Húnavatnssýsla, d. in Duluth on July 20, 1945. Children: 1. Marta (Martha) b. October 22, 1895 2. Óskar (Oscar) Valtýr …
Rögnvaldur Stefánsson
Rögnvaldur Walter Stefánsson was born on July 12, 1887 in Duluth, Minnesota. He had the name Walter Stevenson in the west. Spouse: 1925 Margaret Lamont of Canadian ancestry. Children: 1. Mavis 2. Marcia. Rögnvaldur was the son of Sigmundur Stefánsson and María Guðmundsdóttir from Hnausum at Húnavatnssýsla. They settled in Duluth, moved from there to Selkirk, Manitoba, and then to …
Sigrún Guðmundsdóttir
Sigrún Guðmundsdóttir was born on July 31, 1875 in Árnessýsla. She died on February 10, 1917 in Manitoba. Spouse: Eyjólfur Erlendsson b. March 3, 1868 in Árnessýsla, d. July 9, 1909 in Manitoba. Children: 1. Guðfinna Margrét, b. 1902 2. Erlendur, b. 1904 3. María Eyjólfsdóttir, b. 1907. Eyjólfur came west with his brother Guðjón and his family in 1899. …
Þórunn Jónsdóttir
Þórunn Jónsdóttir from Akurey in Rangárvallasýsla was born in 1882. Spouse: Gestur Jóhannesson b. August 8, 1889 in Roseau, Minnesota. Þórunn was the daughter of Jón Einarsson and Arnbjörgur Andrésdóttir. There is uncertainty about when Þórunn departed Iceland. Gestur moved with his parents, Jóhannes Jóhannsson and Guðrún Sigríður Halldórsdóttir from Roseau in the Pine Valley Settlement in 1900.