Pétur Hallgrímsson Thorlacius was born on March 15, 1825 in  Eyjafjarðarsýsla. He died in Wisconsin in 1874. Spouse: Kristín Ólafsdóttir b. 1831 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. Children: 1. Ingibjörg b. July 19, 1954 2. Hallgrímur b. March 28, 1958. Pétur and Kristín emigrated west to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1873 with Ingibjörg, and two foster children: Hallgrímur, Pétur’s 10-year-old nephew, and Kristgerður Kristinsdóttir, …

Solveig Rebekka Benediktsdóttir was born on April 1, 1832 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. She died on December 13, 1917 in Red Deer in Alberta, Canada. Spouse: Friðrik Jafetsson Reinholt b. January 12, 1823 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. in N. Dakota on February 12, 1897. Children: 1. Indriði b. 1862 2. Friðrik b. 1865 3. Valgerður b. 1867 4. Ágústa b. 1868. The emigrated west to …

Indriði Friðriksson Reinholt was born in 1862 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. Spouse: 1887 Guðbjörg Jasonardóttir b. in New Iceland. Indriði was sixteen years old when he came west in 1878 to Winnipeg, Manitoba. He and Guðbjörg lived for two years in the Fjalla Settlement in N. Dakota. They moved from there in 1889 to Alberta, Canada.  

Páll Gunnarsson was born on December 26, 1852 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. He took the last name Gunderson in the west. Spouse: Jórunn Jónsdóttir b. 1850 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. September 5, 1904 in Minneapolis. Children: 1. Fanney (Fanny) b. 1879 in Canada, d. February 14, 1934. Foster child: Aðalbjörg Jóhannesdóttir b. 1875 in Eyjafjörður. They came west to Canada in 1878 and …

Jórunn Jónsdóttir was born in 1850 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. She died on September 5, 1904 in Minneapolis. Spouse: Páll Gunnarsson b. December 26, 1852 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. He took the last name Gunderson in the west. Children: 1. Fanney (Fanny) b. 1879 in Canada, d. February 14, 1934. Foster child: Aðalbjörg Jóhannesdóttir b. 1875 in Eyjafjörður. They came west to Canada in 1878 …

Bárður Sigurðsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1851. Unmarried and childless. He came west to Winnipeg in 1878 with Páll Gunnarsson and his wife, Jórunn Jónsdóttir. He moved south with them to Minneapolis, Minnesota and is listed as living there in the census of 1895. He probably worked at the same railroad as Páll.

Aðalbjörg Jóhannesdóttir was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1873. Spouse: Sigurður Sigurðsson from Vopnafjörður. Children: 1. Fanney 2. Rósa 3. Daisy 4. Dóra Aðalbjörg came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1878 with her foster parents Páll Gunnarsson and his wife. Her parents and siblings arrived there in 1883. Sigurður and Aðalbjörg settled in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and took …