Olgeir Friðriksson was born in Þistilfjordur in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on January 26, 1863. He died in Manitoba on June 25, 1936. He took the name Frederickson in the west. Spouse: December 12, 1886 Vilborg Jónsdóttir born on August 26, 1868. Children: 1) Svava Concordia 2) Jónína Þórhildur b. January 9, 1890 3) Olga Emily 4) Friðrik Albert 5) Ruby Lilja …
Pétur A Þorkelsson
Pétur Aðalsteinn Þorkelsson: Born on December 10, 1868 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. He was known as Dr. P. Adelstein Johnson in the west. Spouse: Alice Piper b. 1870 in Massachusetts. Children: 1. Helen b. 1901 2. Dorothy b. 1908 Pétur emigrated with his parents to the west in 1876 and lived in Winnipeg. In 1878, the family moved to the Lincoln County …
Kristín Þorkelsdóttir
Kristín Þorkelsdóttir was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1861. Unmarried and childless. She was the daughter of Þorkell Ingimundarson, an early settler in Lyon county near Minneota in 1878 and Sigríður Guðmundsdóttir; they had come west across the ocean in 1876. Kristín came west in 1880 and first lived in the Icelandic settlement in Minnesota and later moved to Watertown in …
Sigríður Guðmundsdóttir
Sigríður Guðmundsdóttir was born in 1837 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. She took the last name Johnson after Þorkell died. Spouse: Þorkell Ingimundarson b. in 1833 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. in Lincoln County, Minnesota in 1881. Children: 1. Kristín b. 1862 2. Hallgrímur b. 1865 3. Pétur Aðalsteinn b. 1868 4. Rósbjörg b. 1874 5. Guðlaug b. 1878. Þorkell and Sigríður came west with their …
Guðrún Gottskálksdóttir
Guðrún Friðrika Gottskálksdóttir was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on October 9, 1873. She died on March 6, 1958 in Manitoba. Spouse: William Herbert Bristow b. in England, d. March 3, 1936 in Gimli. Children: 1. Maude 2. William Herbert , drowned in 1916 3. Blanche Guðrún b. March 21, 1896, d. May 2, 1930 4. Alfred, drowned in 1916 with his …
Gottskálk Sigfússon
Gottskálk Sigfússon was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1834. Spouse: Hólmfríður Jónatansdóttir b. in Þingeyjarsýsla in 1848. Children: 1. Pálína b. 1869 2. Guðrún b. 1873. They came west to Manitoba in 1876 and settled in New Iceland.
Hólmfríður Jónatansdóttir
Hólmfríður Jónatansdóttir was born in Þingeyjarsýsla in 1848. Spouse: Gottskálk Sigfússon b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1834. Children: 1. Pálína b. 1869 2. Guðrún b. 1873. They came west to Manitoba in 1876 and settled in New Iceland.
Ólöf Lárusdóttir
Hafliði Guðmundsson
Hafliði Guðmundsson fæddist í Eyjafjarðarsýslu árið 1857. Dáinn 1901 í Manitoba. Maki: Halldóra Stefánsdóttir f. 22. febrúar, 1859 í Húnavatnssýslu, d. 1935. Börn: 1. Kristján Sveinbjörn 2. Sigrún Margrét 3. Þorbjörg 4. Guðmundur 5. Rósant Jón 6. Sveinbjörg Sólveig 7. Kapitola Hafliði og Halldóra fóru vestur til Winnipeg í Manitoba árið 1884 og gengu þar í hjónaband síðla sama árs. …