Bjarni Helgason fæddist 10. maí, 1832 í Húnavatnssýslu. Dáinn í Vatnabyggð í Saskactchewan 16. júní, 1922. Maki: Helga Jónasdóttir f. 25. mars, 1837 í Eyjafjarðarsýslu, d. 20. nóvember, 1915. Börn: 1. Ósk f. 12. mars, 1862 2. Sigríður f. 22. mars, 1864 3. Jóhann f. 7. desember, 1865 4. Helgi f. 7. júní, 1867 5. Björn f. 14. september, 1870 6. …
Páll Friðbjörnsson
Páll Friðbjörnsson was born in Canada after 1873. He lived with his parents, Friðbjörn Björnsson and Anna Árnadóttur, in Ontario and later in New Iceland. He moved with them to N. Dakota in 1881 and grew up in the Thingvalla Settlement. He settled in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in either 1906 or 1907, but then sold his land …
Björn Björnsson
Björn Björnsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla on September 30, 1885. He died in Vancouver in 1969. He took the name Bjorn Bjornson in the west. Spouse: Kristjana Rakel Sveinsdóttir b. May 18, 1888, d. 1971. She took the name Lella Sveinson in the west. Children: 1. Sveinn Haraldur b. 1910 2. Karl Normann b. 1914 3. Anna b. 1915 4. …
Jónína Á Hallgrímsdóttir
Jónína Ágústa Hallgrímsdótir was born in Duluth, Minnesota on August 23, 1891. She died at Betel Care Home in Gimli, Manitoba in 1969. She had the names Backman and later Tallman in the west. Spouse: Hardy Tallmann b. 1886, a Canadian. Children: 1. Richard b. 1910 2. Gordon b. 1912 3. Lillian b. 1913 4. Stanley b. 1914. Jónína moved …
Skúli Hallgrímsson
Skúli Hallgrímsson was born in Selkirk, Manitoba in 1893. He died in Manitoba in 1981. He took the last name Backman in the west. Spouse: Grace Hanneson b. in Manitoba in 1893, d. in Winnipeg in 1968. Skúli was the son of Hallgrímur Guðmundsson and Þórey Ingimundardóttir. They came west in 1888 and first lived in Minnesota, but moved from …
Ólafur Ólafsson
Ólafur Ólafsson was born in 1876 in Gullbringusýsla. Spouse: Margaret Caroline. Ólafur came west to Winnipeg in 1893 with his mother and brothers. He took land in 1904 in the Elfros Settlement in Saskatchewan. He later sold the land and moved into the village of Leslie.
Óskar Gunnlaugsson
Óskar Gunnlaugsson was born in Manitoba after 1887. Spouse: Jónína Ágústa Björnsdóttir. Óskar was the son of Gunnlaugur Gunnlaugsson and Guðríður Agnes Jóhannsdóttir from Húnavatnssýsla. Jónína was the daughter of Björn Jónsson and Sólveig Sveinbjarnadóttir from Borgarfjarðarsýsla, who came west in 1886. Óskar and Jónína moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and took land in the Wynyard settlement …
Einar Bergþórsson
Einar Bergþórsson was born in Gullbringusýsla in 1868. He came west alone in 1900 to Winnipeg, Manitoba. He took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1906, moved back to Iceland in 1916, but returned west a year later and settled in the Kandahar/Dafoe area. He lived in Kandahar and worked various support jobs, e.g., he was considered …
Albert Loftsson
Albert Loftsson fæddist í Spanish Fork í Utah. Skráður Runolfson vestra. Maki: Pearl Patfield Albert var sonur Lofts Runólfssonar og fyrri konu hans, Christine Jacobsen. Albert var í bandaríska sjóhernum.
Magnús Bjarnason
Magnús Bjarnason was born in Churchbridge, Saskatchewan on May 9, 1892. Magnús was the son of the couple Eiríkur Bjarnason and Oddný Magnúsdóttir who came to Winnipeg from Seyðisfjörður in 1888.
