Sigurbjörn Guðmundsson was born in Dalasýsla on January 5, 1850. He died in the Lundar settlement on November 12, 1930. Spouse: 1) Guðrún Jóhannesdóttir b. June 8, 1849, d. in Winnipeg 1883. 2) Gróa Magnúsdóttir b. in Árnessýsla in 1854, d. in Lundar in 1936. Children: With Guðrún: 1. Þorbjörg b. July 30, 1874, d. September 13, 1901 in Winnipeg …

Ásgrímur Halldórsson was born in Hallson, N. Dakota. He took the name Jim Halldorson in the west. Spouse: May 2, 1906 Helga Árnadóttir b. in New Iceland. Children: 1. Margrét 2. Jónasína 3. Rósa 4. Ágúst 5. Jóhanna. Helga was the daughter of Árni Egilsson of Eyjafjarðarsýsla and Sigríður Björnsdóttir of Skagafjörður, early settlers in Mikley in 1876. They began …

Stefán Stefánsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1859. He died in the Lundar Settlement on April 20, 1903. He took the last name Stephanson in the west. Spouse: Júlíana Einarsdóttur b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. in the Lundar Settlement in 1918. Children: 1. Ágúst b. 1890 2. Valdimar (Walter) b. 1898. Stefán came west to New Jersey and lived there 10 …

Björn Sigurðsson was born in S. Múlasýsla in 1868. He died in Oak Point, Manitoba on April 28, 1944. Spouse: 1891 Jóhanna Antóníusdóttir b. 1860 in S. Múlasýsla, d. January 22, 1945. Children: 1. Sigþóra (Sara) b. 1892 2. Björn 3. Jónas 4. Elís b. 1898 5. Jóhannes 6. Anna b. 1901 7. Antonius (Eddie) b. 1902, d. 1920. The …

Benjamín Jónsson was born in N. Múlasýsla in 1862. He died in Manitoba on January 13, 1925. He took the last name Johnson in the west. Spouse: Jóhanna Hallgrímsdóttir b. 1874, d. April 10, 1942. Children: 1. Guðný b. 1895, d. 1906 2. Jón b. 1897 3. Guðrún b. 1898 d. 1906 4. Ottó b. 1905 5. Auður b. 1908 …

Ólafur Sigurðsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1869. Spouse: Ólafía Ívarsdóttir b. 1875 in Gullbringusýsla. Children: 1. Sigríður b. 1895 2. Ólöf b. 1896 3. Sigurður 4. Páll 5. Margrét 6. Kjartan. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba at the turn of the 20th century, probably after 1901 because they are found in the 1901 census. A Canadian source (WtW) …

Jón Jónsson was born in Gullbringusýsla on July 15, 1856. He died on March 3, 1922 in the Lundar Settlement. Spouse: 1886 Þorbjörg María Einarsdóttir v. 1861, d. January 21, 1924. Children: 1. Þorsteinn b. 1888 2. Sveinn 3. Sigríður Jón was ordained as a priest in Iceland in 1886, served there a variety of congregations but moved west to …

Pétur Árnason was born on October 27, 1864 in Húnavatnssýsla. He died in San Diego, California in 1932. Spouse: 1) Gróa Hallgrímsdóttir b. 1861, d. 1889 in Saskatchewan 2) Helga Ragnheiður Andrésdóttir b. in Mýrasýsla in 1872, d. 1911 in Winnipeg 3) Kristbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir b. 1872 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. in Blaine, Washington in 1979. Children: With Groa: 1. Hallgrímur …

Hallgrímur Ólafsson was born in N. Múlasýsla in 1855. Spouse: Vilhelmína Vigfúsdóttir b. 1857 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. Childless, but they adopted Bjarni Nordal. They came west about 1890 and took land in the Lundar Settlement in Manitoba in 1891.

Jón Jónsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla on October 12, 1873. He died in the Lundar Settlement in 1963. Spouse: October 31, 1895 Soffía Jónsdóttir b. in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1877, d. 1948. Children: 1. Jón Ólafur (Oliver) 2. Þorsteinn (Thorstein) 3. Ásgeir 4. Daníel 5. William 6. Franklin 7. George 8. John 9. Emil 10. Einar 11. Laura 12. Helga 13. …