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 …
Jónína Jóhannesdóttir
Jónína Þuríður Jóhannesdóttir was born on June 29, 1893 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla. Spouse: January 13, 1918 Páll Valdimar Pálsson b. in Winnipeg on May 3, 1894. Children: 1. Valdimar b. December 11, 1918 2. Elísabet b. February 27, 1920 3. Jóhannes b. May 26, 1921 4. May Pauline b. May 3, 1930. Jónína’s parents were Jóhannes Pálsson and Elísabet Snorradóttir who …
Jónas Pálsson
Lárus B Rafnsson
Lárus Bjarni Rafnsson was born at Akranes in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on February 3, 1879. He took the last name Nordal in the west. Spouse: 1902 Rósa Davíðsdóttir b. November 9, 1866 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla d. 1948. Children: 1. Anna Karólína b. September 6, 1902. Lárus came west across the sea to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1900 where he spent the next four year …
Ingibjörg Erlendsdóttir
Ingibjörg Dóróthea Erlendsdóttir was born in Gullbringusýsla on March 14, 1876. She died in Blaine, Washington on July 9, 1948. Spouse: 1907 Guðbjartur Kárason b. May 6, 1872 in Strandasýsla, d. in Stafholt in Blaine, Washington on September 12, 1962. Children: 1. Maríus Ágúst b. August 8, 1909 in Blaine, d. September 21, 1937 2. Halldór Karl (Carl) b. January …
María Gísladóttir
María Gísladóttir was born in 1833 in Dalasýsla (?). Spouse: Erlendur Hannesson d. 1899 in Iceland. She came west in 1900 with her daughter, Ingibjörg Erlendsdóttir, and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Halldór Friðleifsson
Halldór Friðleifsson was born in Árnessýsla in 1870. Spouse: Hildur Bjarnadóttir b. in Árnessýsla in 1868. Children: Eiríkur Júlíus b. in Árnessýsla on July 25, 1894 They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1900 and first lived in Brandon and then Minnedosa, Manitoba. The road led them to Saskatchewan where they were first in Yorkton and then Foam Lake. From …
Hildur Bjarnadóttir
Hildur Bjarnadóttir was born in Árnessýsla in 1868. Spouse: Halldór Friðleifsson b. in Árnessýsla in 1870. Children: Eiríkur Júlíus b. in Árnessýsla on July 25, 1894 They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1900 and first lived in Brandon and then Minnedosa, Manitoba. The road led them to Saskatchewan where they were first in Yorkton and then Foam Lake. From …