Sigurgeir Valdimar Loftsson was born in 1879. He took the name Walter Jonasson in the west. Spouse: Bessie Virginia Brown b. June 22, 1887 in Kent County in Michigan. Children: Dorothy Dulcibel b. May 14, 1915. Sigurgeir was the son of Loftur Jónasson and Aðalbjörg Jóakimsdóttir who settled in Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota. Sigurgeir resided the longest in S. …
Áslaug Indriðadóttir
Áslaug Indriðadóttir was born on September 16, 1866 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died on August 29, 1930 in Hallock, Minnesota. Spouse: Guðmundur Goodman, information missing. Áslaug was the daughter of Indriði Jónsson and his wife, María Jóhannesdóttir, in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. Western resources say Guðmundur Goodman was from Reykjavík and came west in 1893. He ran a jewelry store in Hallock, …
Júlíus Á Eiríksson
Júlíus Ásmundur Eiríksson was born in Minnesota in 1884. He had the name Julius Asmundur Johnson in the west. Spouse: Pauline Henrietta b. 1887 in Minnesota of Norwegian descent. Children: 1. Geneva b. 1908 2. Capitola b. 1910 3. Jane b. 1912 4. Lidia b. 1914 5. Garfield b. 1916 6. Donald b. 1920 7. Russell b. 1923 8. Virgil …
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was born in 1864 in Iceland. Spouse: Guðrún Þuríður Jónsdóttir b. in Iceland on March 11, 1864. Children: 1. Sigríður b. April 28, 1888 2. John b. 1893 3. Þóra Elizabet b. January 6, 1901. Sources in Minnesota say they settled in Marshall, Minnesota in 1880 and lived there until the end of the century. They moved to Watertown, …
Guðrún Þ Jónsdóttir
Guðrún Þuríður Jónsdóttir was born in Iceland on March 11, 1864. Spouse: Henry Johnson b. 1864 in Iceland. Children: 1. Sigríður b. April 28, 1888 2. John b. 1893 3. Þóra Elizabet b. January 6, 1901. Sources in Minnesota say they settled in Marshall, Minnesota in 1880 and lived there until the turn of the century. They moved to Watertown, …
Stefía Stefánsdóttir
Stefía Sigríður Stefánsdóttir was born in Minnesota on April 15, 1880. She died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in 1978. Spouse: 1903 Jón Björnsson b. in Gimli, New Iceland on June 19, 1878, d. in Saskatchewan on July 12, 1945. He had the name Jon B. Jonsson in the west. Children: No information on their children, but they raised Pálína …
Þorbjörg Snæbjörnsdóttir
Þorbjörg Snæbjörnsdóttir was born in 1835 in Árnessýsla. Spouse: Friðleifur Jónsson b. in Árnessýsla in 1834. Children: 1. Jón b. 1866 2. Halldór b. 1870 3. Ingibjörg b. 1875 4. Friðbjörg b. 1882. They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in the last decade of the 19th century. They took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and lived for a …
Júlía Runólfsdóttir
Júlía Runólfsdóttir was born on April 1, 1867 in S. Múlasýsla. She died in Minneapolis on November 29, 1952. She had the name Julia R. Johnson in the west and then Julia R. Thon with marriage. Spouse: Ole K. Thon b. in Norway in 1864, d. January 30, 1928 in Minnesota. Children: 1. Knute b. November 6, 1899, d. July …
Jónína S Árnadóttir
Jónína S. Árnadóttir was born in 1884 in Minnesota. She died in 1966. She had the name Jonina S. Johnson in the west. Spouse: 1919 Runólfur Runólfsson b. in S. Múlasýsla in 1862, d. in Minneapolis in 1947. He took the name Alex Johnson in the west. Children: 1. Lois Rhoda b. July 12, 1921. Jónína was the daughter of Árni Sigvaldur Jónsson …
Sigríður M Pétursdóttir
Sigríður Marta Pétursdóttir was born in Minnesota in 1879. She had the name Sigridur Martha Jokull in the west. Spouse: October 7, 1896 Runólfur Runólfsson b. in S. Múlasýsla in 1862, d. in Minneapolis in 1947. He took the name Alex Johnson in the west. Children: 1. William Erwin b. 1897, d. same year 2. Martha Irene b. August 28, 1900 …