Einar Hjörleifsson was born on December 6, 1859 in S. Múlasýsla. He died in Reykjavík on May 21, 1938. Spouse: 1888 Gíslína Gísladóttir b. 1866 in Kjósarsýsla. Children: 1. Matthilde b. 1889 2. Sigurður b. 1891 3. Einar b. 1892 4. Ragnar b. 1894 5. Gunnar Gísli b. 1896. Einar moved from Copenhagen to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1886 where he …

Þorsteinn E Þorsteinsson was born at Eskifirði in S. Múlasýsla on October 7, 1883. He changed his name to Thorsteinn E. Thorsteinsson in the west. Spouse: Svava Konkordia Olgeirsdóttir b. in Manitoba. Children: 1. Hilda 2. Gladys 3. Olgeir Frederick 4. Herman E. 5. Norman Lloyd. Þorsteinn emigrated west to Winnipeg in 1895 and remained there.  

Sveinn Brynjólfsson was born in S. Múlasýsla on October 3, 1856. He died in British Columbia on June 28, 1930. Spouse: May 3, 1881 Þórdís Vigfúsdóttir b. 1860 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. Children: 1. Sigfús b. 1881 2. Ingigunnar b. 1883 3. Brynjólfur b. 1886. Information is missing on two other sons. They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1893. They …

Sofónías Þorkelsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on April 5, 1876. He died in Victoria, British Columbia on May 30, 1964. He was known as Soffanius Thorkelson in the west. Spouse: 1) May 28, 1899 Jóhanna María Friðriksdóttir b. January 10, 1866 í Húnavatnssýsla, d. October 17, 1948 2) October 1, 1949 Sigrún Siggeirsdóttir b. 1907, d. 1962. Children: With Jóhanna: …

Magnús Pétursson was born in Húnavatnssýsla on September 2, 1869. He died in Winnipeg on June 5, 1945. Spouse: Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir, likely from east Iceland. Children: Information is missing. Sources from the west (SÍV5 p. 303-304 and the Almanak 1946) say that Magnus emigrated west in 1890. In the census, he is listed in Iceland as a tenant at Laugavegur …

Jón Júlíus Þorvarðarson was born in Mýrasýsla on July 1, 1880. He died in Winnipeg on April 19, 1952. He took the last name Swanson in the west. Spouse: Kristín Jónsdóttir Children: 1. Wilfred 2. Raymond. Information is missing regarding their three daughters. Júlíus came west to Winnipeg in 1887 with his mother and siblings. His father, Þorvarður Sveinsson, had …

Halldór Halldórsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on January 27, 1875. He died in Victoria, British Columbia on February 18, 1951. Spouse: Laura Larson of Danish descent. Children: 1. Páll Halldór moved to Australia in 1898 and worked there and in New Zealand for several years. He moved to Winnipeg in 1908 and he and worked in real estate sales and house …

Gísli Ólafsson was born on June 1, 1855 in Ljósavatnsskarð in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in Winnipeg on August 8, 1909. Spouse: May 19, 1890 Elín Sigríður Jónsdóttir b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1857, d. in Winnipeg on 1934. Children: 1. Alpha b. 1895, d. 1970. Gísli emigrated west to Winnipeg in 1886 with his parents, Ólafur Ólafsson and Rannveigur Sveinbjarnardóttir. …

Bergsveinn Matthíasson was born on February 7, 1857 in S. Múlasýsla. He died in Winnipeg on January 25, 1937. He took the last name Long in the west. Unmarried and childless. He emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1882. He worked extensively in the Temperance Movement in the city.

Albert Kristófer Jónsson was born in Akureyri in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on November 2, 1866. He died in Winnipeg on May 15, 1938.  He took the name Albert C. Johnson in the west. Spouse: Elísabet Sigríður Sigurðardóttir b. in Manitoba. Children: 1. Albert Valtýr 2. Guðný 3. Guðrún 4. Alma 5. Helen. Their son, Harald, was lost at nearly twenty years of …