Sigurjón Ólafsson was born on May 29, 1872 in Gullbringusýsla. He died on October 26, 1952 in California. Spouse: Lovise Henrietta Valborg Zeuthen b. April 20, 1876 in Iceland. Children: 1. Helga Agnes b. August 24, 1894. Sigurjón emigrated from Iceland in 1911 and landed in New York.
Guðný Bjarnadóttir
Guðný Bjarnadóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1874. Spouse: Sigurlaugur A Sigfússon b. 1870 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. He was known as S. A. Sigfuson in the west. Children: Ingibjörg b. 1896 2. Sigríður b. 1900 3. Vilmundur 4. Sigurður Eggert 5. Bjarni b. September 20, 1903 6. Lilja Arnfríður 7. Valtýr 8. Halldór. Guðný came west to N. Dakota in 1883 with …
Sigríður Eggertsdóttir
Sigríður Eggertsdóttir was born in 1845 in Húnavatnssýsla. Spouse: 1873 Bjarni Dagsson b. in Snæfelsnessýsla in 1844. Children: 1. Steinvör Arnfríður b. 1873 2. Guðný b. 1874 3. Sigurlaug. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883 and moved on to the Fjalla settlement in N. Dakota the same year. Some time later, Bjarni moved to other land near Mountain.
Steinvör Bjarnadóttir
Steinvör Arnfríður Bjarnadóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1873. She died in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan on October 15, 1952. Spouse: 1892 Þorsteinn Sigfússon b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on January 17, 1867, d. August 22, 1924. Children: 1. Bjarni b. March 10, 1893 2. Sigfús b. February 18, 1895 3. Eggert b. July 12, 1897 4. Sigríður b. November 25, …
Friðrik Hjálmarsson
Friðrik Hjálmarsson was born on October 9, 1874 in Barðastrandarsýsla. He died in Gimli in 1946. He took the last name Reykjalín in the west. Spouse: June 21, 1907 Jónína Björnsdóttir b. July 13, 1889, d. March 3, 1973. Children: 1. Hjálmar Friðrik b. July 22, 1910 2. Elísabet Ingibjörg b. November 11, 1911 3. Soffía Valgerður b. December 23, …
Vilhelmína Vigfúsdóttir
Vilhelmína Vigfúsdóttir was born in 1857 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. Spouse: Hallgrímur Ólafsson b. in N. Múlasýsla in 1855. Childless, but they adopted Bjarni Nordal. They came west about 1890 and took land in the Lundar Settlement in Manitoba in 1891.
Geirfríður S Jakobsdóttir
Geirfríður Sigríður Jakobsdóttir was born on March 12, 1881 in New Iceland. Spouse: June 20, 1901 Benedikt Valdimar Magnússon b. November 27, 1862 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. May 26, 1950 in N. Dakota. He took the last name Melsted in the west. Children: 1. Elín Sigríður b. August 31, 1906 2. Björn Benedikt b. December 21, 1909 3. Sigurður Valtýr …
Magnús B Jónsson
Magnús Björgvin Jónsson was born in N. Dakota on May 5, 1893. He died on June 8, 1962 in Roseau County, Minnesota. He had the name Magnus B. Magnusson in the west. Spouse: Hazel Johnson b. 1897 of Swedish descent. Children: 1. Udell Ellsworth b. 1919, d. December 31, 1941 2. Vernon Ardell b. September 29, 1920, d. July 11, …
Bergheiður Jónsdóttir
Bergheiður Jónsdóttir was born in N. Dakota on August 29, 1889. She died in Hibbing, Minnesota on May 21, 1941. She had the name Bertha Magnusson in the west. Spouse: William Henry Harrison b. in Minnesota. Children: 1. Yhone Verdine b. April 23, 1911, d. July 11, 1984 in California 2. Vivian Cecilia b. January 27, 1913, d. March 30, …
Valdimar L Árnason
Valdimar Lárus Árnason was born in Ontario, Canada on March 26, 1885. He died in St. Paul, Minnesota on October 27, 1966. He had the name Walter Lawrence Johnson in the west. Spouse: Christine Adina Wickstrom b. August 7, 1894, d. March 29, 1965. Children: 1. Lawrence b. September 20, 1923, d. same day 2. Elsie Leonore b. September 17, …
