Tóbías Tóbíasson was born on June 25, 1862 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla. He died in Redding, California on November 27, 1947. Spouse: March 2, 1904 in Raymond, Alberta: Guðfinna Sæmundsdóttir b. October 2, 1865. Children: With Elínborg Pétursdóttir b. in Árnessýsla on September 26, 1866, d. in Reykjavík July 30, 1909: 1. Sigurlína b. 1884 2. Ari Níels b. 1889 3. Tóbías …
Magnúsína Ólafsdóttir
Magnúsína Ágústa Ólafsdóttir was born on August 3, 1893 in Gullbringusýsla. She died on February 20, 1920 in Alberta. Spouse: Tóbías Tóbíasson b. in Reykjavík September 15, 1885, d. in Wynyard, Saskatchewan February 11, 1962. Children: 1. Svava b. July 6, 1912 2. Fjóla b. December 27, 1914 3. Tóbías Haraldur b. August 12, 1916 4. Freyja b. August 24, 1918. …
Sigríður Magnúsdóttir
Sigríður Magnúsdóttir was born in Árnessýsla on June 10, 1866. She died in Lethbridge, Alberta on February 11, 1930. Widow. Sigríður emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with her daughter, Magnúsína Ólafsdóttir, in 1910. That same year, they moved west to MacLeod Valley in Alberta.
Magnús Magnússon
Magnús Magnússon was born on February 27, 1873 in Húsey in Hjaltastaðaþinghá in N. Múlasýsla. Spouse: Ásthildur Grímsdóttir b. in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1884. Children: 1. Eiríkur b. 1908 2. Ólafur b. 1915 3. Ragnhildur b. 1916. Magnús emigrated west to Minneota, Minnesota in 1905, while Ásthildur came west a year later to Glouchester, Massachusetts where her mother, Hólmfríður, lived. She …
Sveinn Oddsson
Sveinn Oddsson was born in Reykjavík on January 14, 1883. He died in Winnipeg on November 29, 1959. Spouse: July 7, 1906 Margrét Ásgrímsdóttir (Westdal) b. in Swede Prairie, Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota, d. in Minneapolis on April 25, 1944. Children: 1. Lúðvík Halldór b. January 28, 1907, d. May 1, 1955 2. Ásgrímur Valdimar b. April 18, 1909, …
Jóhannes Pálsson
Jóhannes Pálsson was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on January 22, 1854. He died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan on November 20, 1930. He took the last name Borgfjörð (Borgfjord) in the west. Spouse: September 5, 1882 Elísabet Snorradóttir b. June 8, 1852, d. November 29, 1931. Children: 1. Rannveig Karólína b. September 27, 1882 2. Sigríður Guðný b. December …
Elísabet Snorradóttir
Elísabet Snorradóttir was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on June 8, 1852, d. November 29, 1931 in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan. Spouse: September 5, 1882 Jóhannes Pálsson b. in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on January 22, 1854, d. in the Lakes Settlement on November 20, 1930. He took the last name Borgfjörð (Borgfjord) in the west. Children: 1. Rannveig Karólína b. September 27, 1882 …
Þóra Ásmundsdóttir
Þóra Ásmundsdóttir was born in Reykjavík on October 15, 1892. Spouse: February 11, 1913 Sigurður Jónsson b. in Snæfellsnessýsla on May 7, 1881. He took the name Johnson in the west. Children: 1. Valtýr Bergman b. February 22, 1914 2. Esther Margrét b. March 25, 1916 3. Herbert Skúli b. April 16, 1918 4. Harald b. January 15, 1921 5. …
Vigfús Ásmundsson
Vigfús Sæmundur Ásmundsson was born on September 24, 1895 in Reykjavík. Spouse: August 24, 1935 Aline Mary McGrath b. January 28, 1914. Children: 1. Vigfús Anthony b. August 8, 1936 2. Craig Magnús b. March 23, 1938 3. Jón Michael b. Janaury 12, 1941, 4. Mary Irene b. June 2, 1942 5. Roderick Vincent b. June 10, 1944 6. Nancy …
Stefán Stefánsson
Stefán Stefánsson was born in Rangárvallasýsla on June 8, 1877. Unmarried and childless. Stefán came to the West in 1903 and settled in Winnipeg. He had been fishing in Iceland, so he began in his first winter fishing in Lake Winnipeg. A year later he went north to Moose Lake where he continued fishing in the winter and did construction …
