Gísli Gíslason
Gísli Gíslason fæddist árið 1850 í V. Skaftafellssýslu. Ókvæntur og barnlaus Gísli flutti vestur til Winnipeg í Manitoba árið 1886 og fór þaðan suður í Pembinabyggð í N. Dakota þar sem hann bjó alla tíð.
Bjarni Sigurðsson
Oddný Árnadóttir
Oddný Árnadóttir was born on May 4, 1867 in W. Skaftafellssýsla. Spouse: Páll Þorsteinsson b. April 22, 1865 in W. Skaftafelssýsla. Children: 1. Þorsteinn 2. Árni 3. Helga Sigríður 4. Pálína Þóra 5. Klemens. They came west to the Pacific coast in 1888 and were first in Victoria, Vancouver Island. They then moved to the Point Roberts peninsula in Washington. …
Sigurður Pálsson
Sigurður Pálsson was born in 1854 in W. Skaftafellssýsla. He took the last name Scheving in the west. Unmarried and childless. Sigurður was the son of Páll Scheving and Sigríður Sigurðardóttir in Garðir. He came west in 1888 and moved to Victoria on Vancouver Island. Helgi Þorsteinsson, Sigurður’s friend, and his wife Dagbjört were there. He accompanied them to Point …
Þórður Þorsteinsson
Þórður Þorsteinsson was born in W. Skaftafellssýsla in 1877. Spouse: Steinunn Þórðardóttir b. in W. Skaftafellssýsla in 1877. Children: 1. Gísli b. 1906 2. Þórstína Jónasína b. 1909 3. Þórður Óskar b. 1910 4. Jóhanna b. 1912 5. Guðlaug Dagbjört b. 1915 6. Oddný Soffía b. 1917 7. Ísak b. 1919. They came west in 1903 and went directly out …
Steinunn Þórðardóttir
Steinunn Þórðardóttir was born in W. Skaftafellssýsla in 1877. Spouse: Þórður Þorsteinsson b. in W. Skaftafellssýsla in 1877. Children: 1. Gísli b. 1906 2. Þórstína Jónasína b. 1909 3. Þórður Óskar b. 1910 4. Jóhanna b. 1912 5. Guðlaug Dagbjört b. 1915 6. Oddný Soffía b. 1917 7. Ísak b. 1919. They came west in 1903 and went directly to …
Halldór Vigfússon
Halldór Vigfússon: Born in 1878 in Árnessýsla. Unmarried and childless. He emigrated west in 1900 and took land in the Geysir Settlement. He worked his farm there for some years and then sold it.
Kristófer Einarsson
Kristófer Einarsson was born on November 7, 1861 in W. Skaftafellssýsla. He died on Washington Island, Wisconsin on June 18, 1934. He took the name Christoffer Einarson in the west. Spouse: 1888 Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir b. October 31, 1865 in W. Skaftafellssýsla, d. January 3, 1901. Children: 1. Josie b. 1889, d. 1943 2. Anne b. 1891, d. 1891 3. Þórunn …
Einar Brandsson
Einar Brandsson was born on November 15, 1861 in W. Skaftafellssýsla. He died on June 25, 1933 in Victoria, British Columbia. Spouse: Sigríður Einarsdóttir b. June 9, 1859, d. November 6, 1928. Children: 1. Margrét Jakobína b. in Victoria, B.C. on February 23, 1898. 2. Brandur 3. Guðmundur (James). They came to Canada in 1886 and moved west a year …
