Baldvin Árnason was born on February 15, 1866 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. Spouse: 1897 Elín María Gísladóttir b. 1878 in N. Múlasýsla. Children: 1. Elis Gladstone 2. Petrína. Baldvin emigrated in 1876, as a three-year old, with his parents, Árni Oddsson and Guðrún Jónsdóttir, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. They settled in the Árnes Settlement and called their land Laufskálar.

Jón Folmer Hansson was born in 1847 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in Manitoba in 1879. Spouse: Elína Jónasdóttir b. in Þingeyjarsýsla in 1839. Children: 1. Jónas b. 1872 2. Elína b. 1875 3. Sigurlaug b. 1877. Elína had two children with her first husband:  Svanfríður b. 1864 and Jón b. 1866. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1878 …

Elína Jónasdóttir was born in Þingeyjarsýsla on August 1, 1839. She died in N. Dakota on July 15, 1922. Spouse: 1) Einar Jóhannesson d. in Iceland 2) Jón Folmer Hansson born in 1847 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in Manitoba in 1879. Children: 1. Jónas b. 1872 2. Elína b. 1875 3. Sigurlaug b. 1877. Elína had two children with …

Guðný Kristrún Sigtryggsdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on September 18, 1902. Unmarried and childless. She was the daughter of Sigtryggur Sigvaldason and Guðný Karítas Friðbjarnardóttir and came to the West with them in 1892. They first lived in the Argyle settlement in Manitoba, but moved in 1903 to the village of Baldur, Manitoba.  Sigtryggur died at Betel in Gimli …