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 …
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Sigurlaug Gunnarsdóttir
Ingibjörg Magnúsdóttir
Jón Jónsson
Jón Jónsson was born at Hól in Skagafjarðarsýsla on April 10, 1848. He took the last name Hillman in the west. Spouse: 1) 1879 in Markland, Nova Scotia Jóhanna Hafsteinsdóttir b. 1856 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. 1884 in Pembina, N. Dakota. 2) 1892 Elísabet Katrín Sveinsdóttir b. October 21, 1871 in N. Múlasýsla. She was the daughter of Sveinn Þorsteinsson and …
Jón Rögnvaldsson
Jón Rögnvaldsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1807. Widowed. Chldren: 1. Jón b. 1847 2. Pétur b. 1853. Jón emigrated west to Ontario, Canada in 1874 with his sons. They lived in Kinmount the first year before moving to Markland, Nova Scotia, where Jón lived with his sons at Engihlíð. Both sons took the name Hillman for their last Icelandic …
Pétur Jónsson
Pétur Jónsson was born at Hóll in Skagafjarðarsýsla on April 10, 1853. He died on July 29, 1926 in N. Dakota. He took the last name Hillman (Hóll) in the west. Spouse: 1) Ólöf Kjartansdóttir b. 1843 2) 1885 Valgerður Sigurðardóttir b. September 26, 1854 in Dalasýsla, d. May 26, 1929. Children: With Ólöf: 1. Rögnvaldur Gísli b. 1872. Ólöf …
Ólöf Kjartansdóttir
Ólöf Kjartansdóttir was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1843. She died in N. Dakota on October 16, 1937. Spouse: 1) Rögnvaldur Jónsson b. 1842 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, fiancé d. in Iceland July 23, 1872 2) Pétur Jónsson b. April 10, 1850, they separated 3) Halldór Þorgilsson b. October 28, 1831, d. November 11, 1919. Children: 1. María Rögnvaldsdóttir b. May 28, 1870 …
María Rögnvaldsdóttir
María Rögnvaldsdóttir was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla on May 28, 1870. She died in N. Dakota on December 25, 1963. Spouse: July 1, 1887 Kristján Halldórsson b. in Dalasýsla on June 8, 1867, d. April 23, 1950 in N. Dakota. Children: 1. Halldóra Ólöf b. April 7, 1889 2. Halldór b. November 12, 1890 3. Málmfríður b. September 10, 1893 4. …