Jón Valdimar Þorláksson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on November 3, 1851. He died in Winnipeg on October 26, 1924. Spouse: 1) 1881 Petrína Guðnadóttir b. November 11, 1865, d. January 9, 1912 2) Anna Pedersen from Denmark. Children: With Petrína 1. Páll d. in birth 2. Lovísa (Louisa) Guðfinna b. October 10, 1884 3. Valdimar Steingrímur b. November 24, 1886 …
Margrét Friðbjarnardóttir
Margrét Friðbjarnardóttir was born in 1872 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died in Manitoba in 1918. Spouse: Alexander Eldjárn Jónsson b. August 26, 1869 in Höfðahverfi in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. He took the last name Johnson in the west. Children: 1. Friðjón 2. Ármann 3. Eldjárn 4. Margrét 5. Guðrún 6. Haraldur 7. Jón 8. Viborg Halldóra 9. Lára 10. Elenóra Margrét. Margrét …
Snæbjörn Andrésson
Snæbjörn Andrésson was born on May 8, 1875 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in Manitoba on July 12, 1967. He took the last name Anderson in the west. Spouse: Kristín Jakobsdóttir b. April 1, 1883, d. 1945. Children: 1. Kristjana Vigdís (Dísa) 2. Friðrik (Fred). Snæbjörn came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 with his parents, Andrés Andrésson and Vigdís …
Páll Þorláksson
Páll Þorláksson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on November 13, 1849. He died in Mountain, N.D. on March 12, 1882. Unmarried and childless. Páll emigrated in 1872 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied theology in St. Louis, Missouri and was ordained as a pastor in the Norwegian Synod in 1875. He founded the first Icelandic congregation in N. America in Shawano …
Jakobína Þorláksdóttir
Guðrún Jakobína Þorláksdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on June 28, 1853. She died in Blaine, Washington in 1923. She took the last name Isaksen with marriage. Spouse: Gjentoft J. Isaksen of Norwegian descent. Children: 1. María 2. Pálína 3. Rósa 4. Óli 5. Jón 6. Gilbert 7. George 8. Robert. Guðrún came to the West in 1873 with her …
Rannveig Þorláksdóttir
Rannveig Þorláksdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on July 19, 1855. She died in Winneconne, Wisconsin on December 12, 1931. Spouse: Tönnes A. Miller of Norwegian ancestry. Rev. Páll Þorláksson, a newly ordained paster, married them in Shawano, Wisconsin in 1875. Children: 1. John Miller. Information is missing on another son as well as five daughters who survived their mother. …
Páll Andrésson
Páll Andrésson was born on May 9, 1881 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in Manitoba on May 25, 1959. He had the name Paul A. Anderson in the west. Spouse: 1) December 17, 1917 Margrét Sigríður Sigurgeirsdóttir b. October 13, 1884, d. March 31, 1919 2) April 2, 1922 Guðrún Jóhanna Kristjánsdóttir b. May 11, 1891. Children: Páll and Margrét …
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Jón Hjálmarsson
Jón Hjálmarsson fæddist í S. Þingeyjararsýslu árið 1849. Maki: 1871 Halldóra Jósefsdóttir f. 1849 í S. Þingeyjarsýslu. Börn: 1. Hjálmar f. 1871 2. Karl 3. Sesselja 4. Lína. Þau fluttu vestur til Toronto í Ontario árið 1873 og fluttu þaðan árið 1876 til Nýja Íslands. Þaðan lá leiðin í Beaulieubyggð vestur af Hallson í N. Dakota.