Margrét Guðrún Hallgrímsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1852. Spouse: Árni Hannesson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1845. Children: 1. Eggert 2. Jón 3. Hallgrímur 4. Óli 5. Tryggvi. Two sons, Hannes and George, died in childhood. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 and went west to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan. They first lived in Churchbridge but then took …
Óskar Pétursson
Óskar Pétursson was born in 1858. He took the name Oscar Peterson in the west. Unmarried and childless. Western Icelandic sources say he came to N. America in 1890 and settled in Duluth. He is listed as living there in the 1895 Census and again in 1900. He worked in milk transport for his countrymen in the city. He was …
Lára E Lárusdóttir
Lára Lárusdóttur was born on October 15, 1888 in Pembina, N. Dakota. He died in Wynyard, Saskatchewan on June 20, 1959. She had the name Lara Goodman in the west. Spouse: January 28, 1912 Óli Jóhannesson b. July 12, 1880 in Parry Sound, Ontario in Canada, d. June 27, 1957 in Wynyard. He had the name Oli J. Halldorson in the …
Kristbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir
Kristbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir was born on February 28, 1891 in the Hnausa Settlement in New Iceland. She died on September 20, 1956 in New Iceland. Spouse: March 30, 1917 Árni Brandsson b. July 21, 1890 in Patreksfjörður in Barðastrandarsýsla, d. March 28, 1960 in Manitoba. Children: 1. Sigga b. January 8, 1918 2. Margaret b. November 6, 1919 Kristbjörg was born in …
Halldóra Ólafsdóttir
Halldóra Ólafsdóttir was born in western Iceland on August 19, 1889. She died on January 14, 1937 in Duluth, Minnesota. She took the name Dora Olson in the west. Spouse: George C. Vickers b. in New York in 1857. Children: 1. Janet b. 1908 2. Donald b. June 9, 1910 3. Douglas b. 1913. Halldóra was the daughter of Ólafur …
Hjörtur Ólafsson
Hjörtur Ólafsson was born in western Iceland on May 9, 1886. He died on May 10, 1937 in St. Louis County in Minnesota. He took the name Harry Olafsson in the west. Spouse: Effie Genevieve b. September 28, 1890 in Wisconsin, d. September 23, 1970. Of Swedish descent Children: 1. Harry Goodwin b. August 10, 1918 2. Lloyd b. October …
Kristín Ólafsdóttir
Kristín Ólafsdóttir was born in western Iceland in 1884. She died in Proctor, Minnesota on March 24, 1920. She took the name Christina Olafson in the west. Spouse: John Erickson b. in Sweden in 1878. Children: 1. Alfred b. 1905 2. Clyde b. 1909, d. September 1, 1988 3. Ellen b. 1911 4. Kathryn b. 1912. Kristín was the daughter …
Ólafur K Ólafsson
Ólafur Kristján Ólafsson was born on May 10, 1877 in Snæfellsnessýsla. He died on August 15, 1966 in Ooltewah in Hamilton County, Tennessee. He took the name Christian Oliver in the west. Spouse: Katherine Hilpi of German descent. Children: 1. Marie b. 1903 2. Dorothy b. 1905 3. Loyal C. b. October 22, 1906 4. Vivian (Vernon) b. 1909 5. …
Þórður Ólafsson
Þórður Ólafsson was born on March 30, 1876 in West Iceland. He died on December 8, 1942 in St. Louis County in Minnesota. Spouse: Sigrún b. in Iceland. Chldren: 1. Kristín (Christine) b. 1909 2. Ruth b. 1913 3. Caroline b. December 30, 1914 4. Florence b. 1917. Þórður may have been the son of Ólafur Ólafsson and Þuríður Guðmundsdóttir, …
Þóra M Kristjánsdóttir
Þóra Margrét Kristjánsdóttir was born in N. Dakota on December 27, 1886. She had the last name Eyford in the west. Spouse: Einar Einarsson b. in New Iceland in 1877. Children: They raised a girl, Helena Oddrúna. They moved from N. Dakota in 1900 to the Pine Valley Settlement in Manitoba.