Ásthildur Grímsdóttir was born in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1884. Spouse: Magnús Magnússon b. February 27, 1873 in Húsey in Hjaltastaðaþinghá in N. Múlasýsla. Children: 1. Eiríkur b. 1908 2. Ólafur b. 1915 3. Ragnhildur b. 1916. Magnús came west to Minneota, Minnesota in 1905 while Ásthildur came west a year later to Glouchester, Massachusetts where her mother, Hólmfríður, lived. She moved from …
Sigurbjörg Ríkharðsdóttir
Sigurbjörg Ríkharðsdóttir was born in 1888 in Minnesota. She was known as Bertha in the west. Spouse: Pétur Árnason b. November 28, 1884 in N. Múlasýsla, d. in Minnesota in 1953. He took the name Petur Magnuson in the west. Children: 1. Herbert Sigurður b. January 30, 1911 2. Iva Sigurbjörg b. May 10, 1912 3. Richard Allan b. November 22, …
Jóhann Jónsson
Jóhann Sigmundur Jónsson fæddist í Vestmannaeyjum 21. ágúst, 1887. Dáinn í Utah 21. október, 1964. Maki: 22. ágúst, 1911 Ethel Singleton f. í Provo í Utah 29. júlí, 1890, d. 18. janúar, 1968. Börn: Upplýsingar vantar. Jón var sonur Jóns Hreinssonar og Kristínar Guðmundsdóttur og fór með þeim til Spanish Fork í Utah árið 1892.
Sigurgeir V Loftsson
Sigurgeir Valdimar Loftsson was born in 1879. He took the name Walter Jonasson in the west. Spouse: Bessie Virginia Brown b. June 22, 1887 in Kent County in Michigan. Children: Dorothy Dulcibel b. May 14, 1915. Sigurgeir was the son of Loftur Jónasson and Aðalbjörg Jóakimsdóttir who settled in Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota. Sigurgeir resided the longest in S. …
Áslaug Indriðadóttir
Áslaug Indriðadóttir was born on September 16, 1866 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died on August 29, 1930 in Hallock, Minnesota. Spouse: Guðmundur Goodman, information missing. Áslaug was the daughter of Indriði Jónsson and his wife, María Jóhannesdóttir, in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. Western resources say Guðmundur Goodman was from Reykjavík and came west in 1893. He ran a jewelry store in Hallock, …
Júlíus Á Eiríksson
Júlíus Ásmundur Eiríksson was born in Minnesota in 1884. He had the name Julius Asmundur Johnson in the west. Spouse: Pauline Henrietta b. 1887 in Minnesota of Norwegian descent. Children: 1. Geneva b. 1908 2. Capitola b. 1910 3. Jane b. 1912 4. Lidia b. 1914 5. Garfield b. 1916 6. Donald b. 1920 7. Russell b. 1923 8. Virgil …
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was born in 1864 in Iceland. Spouse: Guðrún Þuríður Jónsdóttir b. in Iceland on March 11, 1864. Children: 1. Sigríður b. April 28, 1888 2. John b. 1893 3. Þóra Elizabet b. January 6, 1901. Sources in Minnesota say they settled in Marshall, Minnesota in 1880 and lived there until the end of the century. They moved to Watertown, …
Guðrún Þ Jónsdóttir
Guðrún Þuríður Jónsdóttir was born in Iceland on March 11, 1864. Spouse: Henry Johnson b. 1864 in Iceland. Children: 1. Sigríður b. April 28, 1888 2. John b. 1893 3. Þóra Elizabet b. January 6, 1901. Sources in Minnesota say they settled in Marshall, Minnesota in 1880 and lived there until the turn of the century. They moved to Watertown, …
Stefía Stefánsdóttir
Stefía Sigríður Stefánsdóttir was born in Minnesota on April 15, 1880. She died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in 1978. Spouse: 1903 Jón Björnsson b. in Gimli, New Iceland on June 19, 1878, d. in Saskatchewan on July 12, 1945. He had the name Jon B. Jonsson in the west. Children: No information on their children, but they raised Pálína …
Þorbjörg Snæbjörnsdóttir
Þorbjörg Snæbjörnsdóttir was born in 1835 in Árnessýsla. Spouse: Friðleifur Jónsson b. in Árnessýsla in 1834. Children: 1. Jón b. 1866 2. Halldór b. 1870 3. Ingibjörg b. 1875 4. Friðbjörg b. 1882. They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in the last decade of the 19th century. They took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and lived for a …