Ingibjörg Sigríður Jónsdóttir was born on December 11, 1853 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died on February 1, 1845 in Winnipegosis, Manitoba. Spouse: January 4, 1889 Stefán Frímann Jónsson, b. September 22, 1860 at Flateyjardalsheiði in S. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. June 6, 1931 in Winnipegosis. Children: 1. Guðni Valdimar 2. Sigurlín Fanney 3. Jórunn Valdína 4. Kristinn Vígbald b. July 17, 1895 in Winnipeg. Stefán …
Karítas Jónsdóttir
Karítas Jónsdóttir was born on April 18, 1864 in Gullbringusýsla. She died on February 4, 1927 in Winnipegosis, Manitoba. Spouse: 1) Þórarinn Guðmundsson d. 1907 in Iceland. 2) 1910 Guðmundur Jóhannesson, b. in Húnavatnssýsla, d. 1913. 3) 1914 Jónas Brynjólfsson b. 1859 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. Children: Karítas came west with four children in 1910. 1. Margrét b. 1888 2. Alexander …
Málfríður Friðriksdóttir
Málfríður Friðriksdóttir was born in 1879 in Mýrasýsla. Spouse: 1899 Þorsteinn Jónsson b. in Hvítársíða in Mýrasýsla in 1876. Children: 1. Guðrún 2. Málmfríður 3. Friðrik 4. Sæunn. Three children died young. They came west to Winnipeg in 1900, lived there a year, then moved to Red Deer Point on Lake Winnipegosis. They lived there a few years before moving to …
Þorsteinn Jónsson
Þorsteinn Jónsson was born at Hvítársíða in Mýrasýsla in 1876. Spouse: 1899 Málfríður Friðriksdóttir b. 1879 in Mýrasýsla. Children: 1. Guðrún 2. Málmfríður 3. Friðrik 4. Sæunn. Three children died young. They came west to Winnipeg in 1900, lived there a year, then moved to Red Deer Point on Lake Winnipegosis. They lived there a few years before moving to …
Guðrún Jónsdóttir
Guðrún Jónsdóttir was born in 1870 in Árnessýsla. Spouse: 1905 Þórarinn Jónsson b. in Skaftártunga in W. Skaftafellssýsla in 1874. Children: Information missing. Guðrún lived with her mother, Steinunn Jónsdóttir, in Úthlíð in Árnessýsla in 1890. It is uncertain when she came west, probably about the same time as Þórarinn, who came west from Reykjavík in 1900. He worked for …
Sigurlín Hinriksdóttir
Sigurlín Hinriksdóttir was born in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1865. Spouse: Guðmundur Guðbrandsson b. at Skaga in Dýrafjörður in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1865. Children: All born in the west. 1. Guðbrandur 2. Sigríður 3. Ingvar 4. Valgerður 5. Markús Finnibogi. They came west in 1891 and lived for 3 years in Brandon, Manitoba. They moved from there to Winnipegosis in 1899.
Gísli Guðmundsson
Gísli Guðmundsson was born in Strandasýsla on September 20, 1867. He took the name G. J. Goodman in the west. Unmarried and childless. Gísli came west before the turn of the century and lived in Hensel, N. Dakota in 1902. Information is needed regarding Gísli’s life in the west.
Gísli Gíslason
Gísli Gíslason was born on July 19, 1836 in Strandasýsla. Unmarried and childless. Gísli was the son of Gísli Bjarnason, a farmer in Goðdal, and his wife, Guðný Helgadóttir. Information is needed on when Gísli came west and on his life in the west.
Friðfinnur Eymundsson
Friðfinnur Eymundsson was born in Strandasýsla on July 13, 1880. Spouse: of German descent Friðfinnur came to his western home after the turn of the century. Information on his life in the west is needed.
Elín J Jónsdóttir
Elín Jónína Jónsdóttir was born in Strandasýsla on July 9, 1874. She died in Grafton, N. Dakota on September 4, 1943. Child. Elín came west in 1876 with her parents, Jón Jónsson and Ragnhildur Jósepsdóttir, and siblings. They were first in New Iceland, but then moved in 1880 to Winnipeg and later to Mountain, N. Dakota. There, Elín married Guðmundur …
