Guðmundur Ólafsson
Guðmundur Ólafsson was born in Axarfjörður in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1857. Spouse: Kristín Jónsdóttir b. 1852 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. Children: 1. Born in Iceland, Kristín Soffía 1887 2. Jóhanna Sólveig. They came west in 1887 and lived 12 years in Grafton, N. Dakota. They moved in 1899 to Winnipeg and then to Winnipegosis in 1917. They moved back to N. Dakota, …
Kristín Jónsdóttir
Kristín Jónsdóttir was born in 1852 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. Spouse: Guðmundur Ólafsson b. in Axarfjörður in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1857. Children: 1. Born in Iceland, Kristín Soffía 1887 2. Jóhanna Sólveig. They came west in 1887 and lived 12 years in Grafton, N. Dakota. They moved in 1899 to Winnipeg and then to Winnipegosis in 1917. They moved back to …
Helga Friðriksdóttir
Helga Friðriksdóttir was born in Ísafjarðarsýsla on January 20, 1895. She died on June 3, 1968 in Winnipeg. Spouse: December 2, 1922 Jens Elíasson b. in Ísafjarðarsýsla on April 25, 1897. Children: 1. Friðrik b. November 11, 1923, d. October 17, 1965 2. Kristbjörg b. October 2, 1925 3. Páll b. in Osland, British Columbia on February 19, 1927 4. …
Gunnlaugur Gíslason
Gunnlaugur Gíslason was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on October 22, 1862. He died on October 4, 1954 in Wynyard, Saskatchewan. Spouse: 1896 Halldóra Jónasdóttir b. February 21, 1877, d. June 16, 1958 in Wynyard. Children: 1. Guðrún d. 1915 2. Arnþrúður b. January 19, 1899. Gunnlaugur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 with his father, brother-in-law, and sister. They …
Jakob Friðriksson
Jakob Holt Friðriksson was born on April 12, 1898 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in Flin Flon, Manitoba on June 10, 1929. Unmarried and childless. Jakob came west in 1905 with his parents, Friðrik Guðmundsson and Þorgerður Jónsdóttir, and siblings. They moved to Manitoba and Jakob lived there the rest of his life.
Ingólfur Friðriksson
Ingólfur Friðriksson was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on April 22, 1901. Spouse: May 27, 1922 Esther Larson of Swedish descent, b. August 8, 1902 in Manitoba. Children: 1. Leonard Jakob b. September 23, 1924 2. Doreen Þorgerður b. November 24, 1926 3. Linda Elizabeth b. April 4, 1929 4. Lorna Rosanna b. December 4, 1931 5. Dennis Ole Leo b. …
Jón Friðriksson
Jón Friðriksson was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on June 12, 1903. He took the last name of his father’s father in the west. Spouse: Eleanor Anna Maruda b. in Manitoba on December 11, 1911, of Ukranian ancestry Children: 1. John b. in Vancouver on May 25, 1947. Jón came west in 1905 with his parents, Friðrik Guðmundsson and Þorgerður Jónsdóttir, …