Guðmundína Guðmundsdóttir was born in Saskatchewan. She took the last name Benson in the west. Spouse: Einar Einarsson b. in Borgarfjarðarsýsla in 1878, d. in Saskatchewan in 1943. He took the last name Olson in the west. Children: 1. Jónína 2. Ella 3. Eggert 4. Martin Einar came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his parents and siblings in 1887. He moved …
Ingibjörg Friðleifsdóttir
Ingibjörg Friðleifsdóttir was born in 1875 in Árnessýsla. Spouse: Guðmundur Einarsson b. in Árnessýsla. Children: 1. Haraldur 2. Sigríður Júlía 3. Friðsemd Ásta 4. Einar Hannes 5. Guðrún Isabella 6. Ingimundur Móses. They raised a stepson named Haraldur. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1901. They first lived in Brandon but then moved west to Vancouver and lived there for …
Soffía Guðbrandsdóttir
Soffía Guðbrandsdóttir was born on February 9, 1859 in Dalasýsla. She died on October 6, 1948 in Argyle. Spouse: Einar Einarsson b. in Dalasýsla on April 23, 1851, d. in Winnipeg on September 11, 1923. Children: 1. Áslaug b. 1879, d. 1899 2. Guðbrandur b. in Winnipeg on March 6, 1889 3. Hinrik Valtýr 4. Lilja 5. Kristján 6. Helena 7. …
Sigurður Jónsson
Sigurður Jónsson was born in 1866 in Kjósarsýsla. He died on Augutst 30, 1935 in St. Louis County in Minnesota. He took the last name Norman in the west. Spouse: December 10, 1887 in Winnipeg, Sigurjóna Davíðsdóttir b. November 17, 1856 in Strandasýsla, d. February 3, 1923 in Duluth. Children: 1. Bertha Kristín b. April 5, 1890 2. Elsie Emily …
Jónas S Guðmundsson
Jónas Stefán Guðmundsson was born in Duluth on December 9, 1890. He died in 1983 in Palm Beach County, Flórída. He had the name Jonas Stefan Nordal in the west. Spouse: Minnie of German and Norwegian parentage, d. May 12, 1977. Children: 1. Elsie b. 1918 2. Joyce Barbara b. 1926. Jónas was the son of Guðmundur Guðmundsson and Sigurborg …
Margrét Guðmundsdóttir
Margrét Guðmundsdóttir was born in Duluth, Minnesota on January 6, 1889. She died in San Diego, California on January 20, 1970. She had the name Margret June Nordal in the west. Spouse: Raymond W. Thayer b. 1888, d. December 1, 1923 in Duluth. Children: 1. Raymond b. July 23, 1918 2. Ramona b. 1924. Margrét was the daughter of Guðmundur …
Guðrún S Sigurðardóttir
Guðrún Sigríður Sigurðardóttir was born on May 23, 1884 in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota. She had the last name Isfeld in the west. Spouse: Jón Magnússon b. 1887 in N. Dakota. Children: 1. Marjorie Sigrid b. November 5, 1911 2. Kristine Rosalie b. July 22, 1914 3. Magnús b. August 10, 1916 4. John Eugene b. September 1, 1919 …
Ragnhildur Nikulásdóttir
Ragnhildur Nikulásdóttir was born in New Iceland in 1894. She died in St. Louis County, Minnesota on July 2, 1953. She had the name Ragnhildur (Loa) Snidal in the west. Maki: Elmer Nelson Children: 1. Betty Josephine b. 1922. Ragnhildur was the daughter of Nikulás Þórarinsson who came west to New Iceland in 1883 and his first wife, Ragnhildur Einarsdóttir. …
Jón Magnússon
Jón Magnússon was born in 1887 in N. Dakota. Spouse: Guðrún Sigríður Sigurðardóttir b. May 23, 1884. She had the last name Isfeld in the west. Children: 1. Marjorie Sigrid b. November 5, 1911 2. Kristine Rosalie b. July 22, 1914 3. Magnús b. August 10, 1916 4. John Eugene b. September 1, 1919 5. Helen Lenore b. May 4, …
Sigríður Sigurðardóttir
Sigríður Sigurðardóttir was born in Winnipeg. Spouse: Kristinn Normann Jónsson b. in Brandon, Manitoba. Kristinn was the son of Jón Normann Jónsson and Guðrún Halldórsdóttir from Ísafjörður. Sigríður moved to the Pine Valley Settlement with her parents, Sigurður Magnússon and Una Jónsdóttir, in 1905. They lived the longest in the village of Piney. Guðrún lost her first husband and remarried. Her …