Páll Árnason: Born in 1854 in Árnessýsla. Spouse: Halldóra Pálsdóttir born in the same sýsla in 1854. Children: 1) Guðlaugur b. 1882 2) Guðrún b. 1883 3) Arnbjörg b. 1884 4) Valdimar b. in the Argyle Settlement on July 25, 1890 5) Páll b. in the Argyle Settlement on December 3, 1892. They came west in 1886 and settled on …

Hallgrímur Guðmundsson was born in Árnessýsla in 1851. He died in 1906 in Selkirk, Manitoba. He took the last name Backman in the west. Spouse: Þórey Ingimundardóttir b. 1852 in Árnessýsla. Children: 1. Helga Margrét b. August 1, 1874 2. Valgerður b. 1881 3. Þórhildur b. 1886 4. Andrés  b. 1887 5. Jónína b. August 23, 1891 6. Skúli b. …

Þórey Ingimundardóttir was born in 1852 in Árnessýsla. Spouse: Hallgrímur Guðmundsson b. in Árnessýsla in 1851, d. 1906 in Selkirk, Manitoba. He took the last name Backman in the west. Children: 1. Helga Margrét b. August 1, 1874 2. Valgerður b. 1881 3. Þórhildur b. 1886 4. Andrés  b. 1887 5. Jónína b. August 23, 1891 6. Skúli b. 1893 Hallgrímur …

Valgerður Hallgrímsdóttir was born in 1882 in Árnessýsla. Spouse: Jóhann Gunnlaugur Stefánsson born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1871. Childless, but they raised two foster children. Valgerður came west with his parents, Hallgrímur Guðmundsson and Þórey Ingimundardóttir, to the United States in 1888 and first came to New York. The family moved from there to Duluth and his sister, Jónína, was born there …

Guðrún Pétursdóttir was born on February 8, 1876 in Árnessýsla. Spouse: 1898 Jónas Jónasson b. in Húnavatnssýsla on September 11, 1867, d. in Winnipeg on April 21, 1941. Childless, but they raised Guðrún Ívarsdóttir, Guðrún’s sister’s daughter. Guðrún came to the West in 1888 with her parents, Pétur Einarsson and Halla Magnúsdóttir, and siblings. She had a hard time in …

Páll Guðmundsson was born in 1865 in Árnessýsla. He died in Selkirk, Manitoba on December 31, 1948. He took the name Paul Goodman in the west. Spouse: Ingiríður Magnúsdóttir b. January 6, 1870 in Gullbringusýsla, d. December 28, 1944 at home in Selkirk. Children: 1. Paul Wilberg b. February 25, 1905, d. October 1, 1959. They came to the West …

Ingiríður Magnúsdóttir was born on January 6, 1870 in Gullbringusýsla. She died on December 28, 1944 in her home in Selkirk. Spouse: Páll Guðmundsson b. 1865 in Árnessýsla. d. in Selkirk, Manitoba on December 31, 1948. He took the name Paul Goodman in the west. Children: 1. Paul Wilberg b. February 25, 1905, d. October 1, 1959. They came to …