Margrét Benediktsdóttir was born on September 21, 1860 in Húnavatnssýsla. She died on January 16, 1956 in Manitoba. Spouse: 1881 Sigvaldi Símonarson b. in Húnavatnssýsla on December 21, 1849, d. in the Geysir Settlement on November 2, 1918. Children: 1. Bjarni 2. Guðmundur b. June 29, 1886 3. Benedikt Valdimar b. August 30, 1889, d. December 11, 1955 4. Sigurður …
Sigvaldi Símonarson
Sigvaldi Símonarson was born in Húnavatnssýsla on December 21, 1849. He died in the Geysir Settlement on November 2, 1918. Spouse: 1881 Margrét Benediktsdóttir b. in the same sýsla on September 21, 1860, d. January 16, 1956 Children: 1. Bjarni 2. Guðmundur b. June 29, 1886 3. Benedikt Valdimar b. August 30, 1889, d. December 11, 1955 4. Sigurður Ingvar 5. …
Júlíana Jónsdóttir
Júlíana Jónsdóttir was born at Borðeyri in Strandasýsla on May 23, 1869. Child. She came west to Wisconsin in 1873 with her parents, Jón Jónsson and Karólína Magnúsdóttir. They lived in Columbia County until 1882, then moved to N. Dakota. Information is needed on her life in the west.
Steinunn Eiríksdóttir
Steinunn Eiríksdóttir was born in Mýrasýsla in 1806. Spouse: Páll Bjarnason d. in Iceland. She came west with her 1882 with her daughter Guðlaugur and her family. They settled in Winnipeg.
Stefán Stefánsson
Jón Jónsson
Jón Jónsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1836. Died in N. Dakota in July of 1920. Spouse: Karólína Magnúsdóttir b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1841, d. in January, 1923. Children: 1. Magnús b. 1866, d. 1897 2. Júlíana b. 1869 3. Jón b. 1871 4. Hallgrímur d. newborn 5. Fríða (Freda) b. 1876, d. 1903 6. Anna Kristín b. 1878, d. …
Karólína Magnúsdóttir
Karólína Magnúsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1841. She died in January 1923. Spouse: Jón Jónsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1836. He died in N. Dakota in July, 1920. Children: 1. Magnús b. 1866, d. 1897 2. Júlíana b. 1869 3. Jón b. 1871 4. Hallgrímur d. right after birth 5. Fríða b. 1876, d. 1903 6. Anna Kristín b. 1878, …
Bjarni Davíðsson
Bjarni Davíðsson was born in Dalasýsla on September 18, 1855. He died in Saskatchewan on March 9, 1928. He took the last name Westmann in Canada. Spouse: 1889 Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir b. in Árnessýsla in 1851, d. in Winnipeg August 9, 1944. Children: Davíð Albert Bjarni came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1882 and worked here and there in the city …