Sigríður Gísladóttir was born in 1847 in Iceland. Spouse: Guðmundur Vigfússon b. in Iceland in 1847. He took the last name Goodman in the west. Children: Jóhanna (Annie) Ingibjörg b. May 17, 1889 2. Lilly b. 1891 3. Vigfús b. 1894. They came west in 1887 and first settled in Duluth, Minnesota. There Jóhanna was baptized by Rev. Níels Steingrími Thorlaksson, …
Guðmundur Vigfússon
Guðmundur Vigfússon was born in Iceland in 1847. He took the last name Goodman in the west. Spouse: Sigríður Gísladóttir b. 1847 in Iceland. Children: Jóhanna (Annie) Ingibjörg b. May 17, 1889 2. Lilly b. 1891 3. Vigfús b. 1894. They came west in 1887 and first settled in Duluth, Minnesota. There, Jóhanna was baptized by Reverend Níels Steingrímur Thorlaksson, …
Ingveldur Ingimundardóttir
Ingveldur Ingimundardóttir was born on August 6, 1859 in Árnessýsla. He died on May 30, 1957 in St. Louis County in Minnesota. She took the name Inga Bachman in the west. Spouse: Jón Þorsteinsson b. December 4, 1859 in Hrútafjörður in Húnavatnssýsla, d. in Duluth on July 20, 1945. Children: 1. Marta (Martha) b. October 22, 1895 2. Óskar (Oscar) Valtýr …
Rögnvaldur Stefánsson
Rögnvaldur Walter Stefánsson was born on July 12, 1887 in Duluth, Minnesota. He had the name Walter Stevenson in the west. Spouse: 1925 Margaret Lamont of Canadian ancestry. Children: 1. Mavis 2. Marcia. Rögnvaldur was the son of Sigmundur Stefánsson and María Guðmundsdóttir from Hnausum at Húnavatnssýsla. They settled in Duluth, moved from there to Selkirk, Manitoba, and then to …
Sigrún Guðmundsdóttir
Sigrún Guðmundsdóttir was born on July 31, 1875 in Árnessýsla. She died on February 10, 1917 in Manitoba. Spouse: Eyjólfur Erlendsson b. March 3, 1868 in Árnessýsla, d. July 9, 1909 in Manitoba. Children: 1. Guðfinna Margrét, b. 1902 2. Erlendur, b. 1904 3. María Eyjólfsdóttir, b. 1907. Eyjólfur came west with his brother Guðjón and his family in 1899. …
Þórunn Jónsdóttir
Þórunn Jónsdóttir from Akurey in Rangárvallasýsla was born in 1882. Spouse: Gestur Jóhannesson b. August 8, 1889 in Roseau, Minnesota. Þórunn was the daughter of Jón Einarsson and Arnbjörgur Andrésdóttir. There is uncertainty about when Þórunn departed Iceland. Gestur moved with his parents, Jóhannes Jóhannsson and Guðrún Sigríður Halldórsdóttir from Roseau in the Pine Valley Settlement in 1900.
Margrét G Hallgrímsdóttir
Margrét Guðrún Hallgrímsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1852. Spouse: Árni Hannesson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1845. Children: 1. Eggert 2. Jón 3. Hallgrímur 4. Óli 5. Tryggvi. Two sons, Hannes and George, died in childhood. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 and went west to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan. They first lived in Churchbridge but then took …
Óskar Pétursson
Óskar Pétursson was born in 1858. He took the name Oscar Peterson in the west. Unmarried and childless. Western Icelandic sources say he came to N. America in 1890 and settled in Duluth. He is listed as living there in the 1895 Census and again in 1900. He worked in milk transport for his countrymen in the city. He was …
Lára E Lárusdóttir
Lára Lárusdóttur was born on October 15, 1888 in Pembina, N. Dakota. He died in Wynyard, Saskatchewan on June 20, 1959. She had the name Lara Goodman in the west. Spouse: January 28, 1912 Óli Jóhannesson b. July 12, 1880 in Parry Sound, Ontario in Canada, d. June 27, 1957 in Wynyard. He had the name Oli J. Halldorson in the …
Kristbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir
Kristbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir was born on February 28, 1891 in the Hnausa Settlement in New Iceland. She died on September 20, 1956 in New Iceland. Spouse: March 30, 1917 Árni Brandsson b. July 21, 1890 in Patreksfjörður in Barðastrandarsýsla, d. March 28, 1960 in Manitoba. Children: 1. Sigga b. January 8, 1918 2. Margaret b. November 6, 1919 Kristbjörg was born in …