ID: 10044
Date of birth : 1864
Date of death : 1919
Anna Jónasdóttir Photo: VÍÆ 5
Anna Jónasdóttir was born in 1864 in Þingeyjarsýsla. She died in Manitoba in 1919.
Spouse: Jörundur Sigurbjörnsson b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on May 26, 1866, d. in Alberta, Canada in 1938.
Children: 1. Baldrún b. 1886 2. Sigurbjörn b. 1888 3. Emilía b. 1893.
They came west to N. Dakota in 1893 and lived for one year in Mountain. They moved from there to Manitoba and took land on a peninsula on the north side of Lake Manitoba, which Jörundur named Siglunes. A small Icelandic settlement gradually formed there.