Stefán Þorkelsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla on March 12, 1870. He died in Lincoln County in Minnesota on July 7, 1924. He took the name Steve Gudmundson in the west. Unmarried and childless. He emigrated west with his parents, Þorkell Guðmundsson and Anna Sigríður Skúladóttir, in 1883 and lived with them in Lincoln County in Minnesota.
Stefanía S Ásbjörnsdóttir
Stefanía Sigríður Ásbjörnsdóttir was born on May 8, 1861 in N. Múlasýsla. She died on June 29, 1937 in Minnesota. Spouse: November 12, 1892 Hinrik Þorkelsson b. May 28, 1865 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. March 20, 1923 in Lyon County in Minnesota. He took the last name Gudmundson in the west. Children: 1. Lilja b. September 12, 1894, d. December 15, 1899 …
Andrés P Guðbrandsson
Andrés Pétur Guðbrandsson was born in 1853 in S. Múlasýsla. He died on May 19, 1939 in Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota. Unmarried and childless. Andrés emigrated west to Minnesota in 1880 and lived in Minneapolis the first years. He was living in Yellow Medicine County in 1905, working as a carpenter. In 1910, he moved back to Minneapolis where …
Hólmfríður Sturlaugsdóttir
Hólmfríður Sturlaugsdóttir was born in 1886 in Lyon County, Minnesota. She died in Minneota in 1967. She took the name Holmfridur (Freda) Gilbertson. Spouse: Edwin Franklin Leland b. April 24, 1892, d. November 28, 1977 in Los Angeles. Children: 1. Roland F. b. 1826 2. John Stewart b. September 12, 1930 3. Charles Edward b. c1932, d. January 6, 1932. …
Jón Sturlaugsson
Jón Sturlaugsson was born on January 6, 1882 in Lyon County, Minnesota. He died in McAlester, Oklahoma in January 1947. He took the name John Gilbertson. Spouse: Beda E., b. in Sweden. Children: Lawrence b. May 5, 1912. Jón grew up with his parents, Sturlaugur Guðbrandsson and Áslaug Guðmundsdottir. He studied Auditing and worked in Oklahoma for the Russell Hardware …
Guðbrandur Sturlaugsson
Guðbrandur Sturlaugsson was born in Lyon County, Minnesota on October 26, 1879. He died in California in 1947. He took the name Gilbert S. Gilbertson. Spouse: Julia Belle b. in New York c1860, d. 1947. Childless. Guðbrandur grew up in Minnesota with his parents, Sturlaugur Guðbrandsson and Áslaug Guðmundsdóttir. He met his wife in Minnesota, They moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin …
Stefán Þ Árnason
Stefán Þorkell Árnason was born in N. Dakota on September 16, 1882. He died in Seattle in 1970. He took the name Stefan Thorkell Scheving in the west. Spouse: 1919 Anna Valgerður Guðmundsdóttir b. May 4, 1890 at Sauðárkrók in Skagafjarðarsýsla. Children: 1. Margrét b. September 4, 1920 2. María Sigríður b. November 26, 1921 3. Stefán Árni b. June …
Elísabet Gunnlaugsdóttir
Elísabet Gunnlaugsdóttir was born in 1877 in Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota. She died in 1929 in Hudson, Wisconsin. Spouse: Halldór Eyjólfsson was born in 1878 in S. Múlasýsla. He died in Lyon County in Minnesota on January 17, 1910. Children: 1. John Douglas b. November 18, 1900 2. Charles Matthew b July 15, 1902 3. Charlotte Josephine b. January 2, …
María K Þorsteinsdóttir
María Kristrún Þorsteinsdóttir was born on December 29, 1886 in Lyon County, Minnesota. Spouse: Metúsalem Eyjólfsson born in 1877 in S. Múlasýsla. He died in a mill accident in Massillon, Ohio on December 7, 1932. He took the name Matthew Nicholson in the west. Children: 1. Raymond Ellsworth b. September 20, 1907 2. Hope b. January 2, 1909. María grew up …
Júlíana R Benediktsdóttir
Júlíana Ragnheiður Benediktsdóttir was born in Dalasýsla on July 11, 1836. She died on December 4, 1912 in Manitoba. Spouse: 1) Bæring Bæringsson, they divorced 2) Grímur Jóhannesson b. June 24, 1835 in Snæfellsnessýsla, d. at Betel in Gimli on September 4, 1923. He took the last name Breiðfjörð in the west. Children: 1. Ágúst Gísli b. August 11, 1869. …