Brynjólfur Jónsson: Born in S. Múlasýsla in 1883. He used the name Sveinsson in the west. Spouse: Jane L. Nordal. Children: 1. Jóhanna Ingibjörg 2. Jón 3. Norma Pearl 4. Valdína Bergljót 5. Benedikt 6. Einar 7. Þorbjörg 8. Sigurður 9. Halldór Frímann 10. Margrét Sigríður 11. Sveinbjörg. Brynjólfur emigrated west with his parents, Jón Sveinsson and Ólína Guðmundsdóttir, in …

Jón Sveinsson was born in Rangárvallasýsla in 1834. Spouse: 1) Helga ??? 2) Jóhanna Jóhannesdóttir Children: With first wife: 1. Sveinn b. 1862 2. Guðlaug b. 1872. With second wife: 1. Kristján b. 1882 2. Brynjólfur b. 1883. Jón named his land in the Geysir Settlement Þingvellir.

Guðmundur Erlendsson: Born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla in 1883. Spouse: Hansína Albertsdóttir, daughter of Albert Sigurbjörnsson who came west in 1878 with his parents. Her mother was Sigríður Sigurðardóttir. Children: 1. Ólína 2. Sigríður 3. Guðmundur. Guðmundur emigrated west with his parents, Erlendur Erlendsson and Ólína Guðmundsdóttir, and his siblings in 1889. They took land in the Geysir Settlement and named their …

Erlendur Erlendsson: Born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla in 1857. Spouse: 1881 Ólína Guðmundsdóttir b. 1858 in Snæfellsnessýsla. Children: 1. Guðmundur b. 1883 2. Ingibjörg b. 1885 3. Anna b. 1886 4. Halldór b. 1889 5. Þórdís b. 1889 6. Marilíus 7. Jóna Jóhanna They came west in 1889 and settled on their land in the Geysir Settlement in 1891. They named it …

Eiríkur Sigurðsson: Born in Hnappadalssýsla in 1874. He took the last name Bardason in the west.  He died in 1923. Spouse: 1899 Margrét Sigurðardóttir Children: 1. Arnaldur 2. Ingiríður 3. Valgerður 4. Sigurður Nordal 5. Sigrún 6. Edgard 7. Guðmundur Hernit. Western sources say he moved with his parents west in 1888, but his Icelandic father, Sigurd Bárðason, traveled west …

Hallur Frímann Þorvarðarson was born in Dalasýsla on September 18, 1869. He died on March 13, 1930 in Manitoba. Spouse: Margrét Árnadóttir b. in Rangárvallasýsla in 1875, d. in New Iceland in 1951. Children: 1. Hermann Ásgeir b. December 2, 1896 2. Árnína Ingibjörg b. October 4, 1898 3.  Árni Ingimar b. 1900 4. Bergþór Sigurður b. 1904 5. Kristín Guðbjörg b. …

Árni Vigfússon: Born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla in 1866. He died in 1945. Spouse: 1) Ingibjörg Elisabet Guðmundsdóttir b. 1866 in the same sýsla, d. April 19, 1919 2) July 19, 1920 Margrét Elísabet Baldvinsdóttir b. in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1879, d. 1954. Children: 1. Guðmundur Sveinn b. April 5, 1892; d. May 9, 1917 2. Hólmfríður (Freda)  3. Vigfús Árni (Addi) …

Jón Dagsson: Born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1828. Spouse: Anna Stefánsdóttir d. in Iceland. Jón came west in 1894 with his daughter’s family, Jóhanna G. Jónsdóttir, and lived with them at Geysir in the Geysir Settlement.  

Eggert Stefánsson: Born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1858. Spouse: Margrét Halldórsdóttir b. in the same sýsla in 1860. Children: missing names They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1885. They took land in the Geysir Settlement in 1897 and lived there until 1910. They moved to an Icelandic settlement west of Dog Lake north of Vogar where their sons had settled.

Jóhann Sigfússon: Born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1865. Unmarried and childless. He came west with his parents in 1883. He bought land and rented it to his brother Svanberg. They worked the farm together.