Guðrún Rafnsdóttir
Hafsteinn Skúlason
Hafsteinn Skúlason was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1829. Spouse: Sigríður Þorbergsdóttir b. 1822. Children: 1. Jóhanna b. 1856. They also had a foster daughter, Hallfríður Magnúsdóttir, b. 1866. Hafsteinn emigrated west to Ontario, Canada with his mother, Jóhanna Jósefsdóttir, his daughter, Jóhanna, and Hallfríður. They stayed in Kinmount the first year. Sigríður joined them a year later. They moved east …
Jóhanna Hafsteinsdóttir
Jóhanna Hafsteinsdóttir was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1856. She died in N. Dakota in 1884. Spouse: 1879 Jón Jónsson Hillman b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla on April 10, 1848. Children: 1. Sigríður Anna. They also lost a baby. Jóhanna emigrated west to Ontario, Canada in 1874 with her father, Hafstein Skúlason, and her mother, Jóhanna Jósefsdóttir. They lived in Kinmount for one …
Guðmundur Jónsson
Guðmundur Jónsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1832. Spouse: Dagbjört Ólafsdóttir b. 1837 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. Children: 1. Sigurður Guðmundsson b. 1870. They emigrated west to Ontario, Canada in 1874. From there, they moved to New Iceland and later to the Pembina Settlement in N. Dakota.
Sigurður Magnússon
Sigurður Magnússon was born on June 19, 1852 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla. Spouse: 1) Kristín Lilja Brynjólfsdóttir b. 1858 in Húnavatnssýsla, d. 1889 in Winnipeg. 2) Una Jónsdóttir b. September 25, 1858 in Húnavatnssýsla. Children: With Kristín: 1. Sigþrúður born in Winnipeg. With Una: 1. Sigurður 2. Björn b. September 13, 1894 3. Magnús b. July 2, 1896 4. Kristín Theodóra. Earlier, …
Jón Sveinsson
Jón Sveinsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1883. He took the last name Skagfjörð in the west. Spouse: Gróa Þorsteinsdóttir b. in Árnessýsla. Children: Information missing. Jón came west to Canada in 1903 and settled on land west of Foam Lake in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð).
Hallfríður Magnúsdóttir
Hallfríður Magnúsdóttir was born in 1866 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. Spouse: 1890 Þórarinn Guðmundsson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1870. Children: 1. Sigríður Florence 2. Ása Jóhanna 3. Ingibjörg Sigurlaug 4. Lilja Þorfríður 5. Stefán Victor. Hallfríður came west to Canada in 1874 with her foster parents, Hafsteinn Skúlason and Sigríður Þorbergsdóttir. They were in Ontario the first year them moved east to …
