María Rögnvaldsdóttir was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1815. Spouse: Kjartan Eiríksson d. in Iceland. Children: 1. Ólöf b. 1842 2. Guðmundur b. 1852 3. Valdimar b. 1855 4. Jón b. 1858. María emigrated alone in 1876 to Canada and travelled east to Markland, Nova Scotia. There she lived at Laufskógum with her daughter, Ólöf, and her husband Pétur.

Jón Gíslason was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1849. Spouse: Sigurbjörg Guðmundsdóttir b. 1851 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. Childless, but Jón had two sons earlier: 1. Stefán b. 1879 2. Sigurður. They came west from Garðakot in Skagafjörður in 1886 with Stefán and settled in N. Dakota. Two years later, they moved west to Calgary, Alberta, where they lived for a time. They …