ID: 15069
Date of birth : 1841
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Guðný Magnúsdóttir was born in N. Múlasýsla on January 20, 1841. Died January 7, 1931.
Spouse: October 2, 1862 Jón Eiríksson b. August 24, 1841 in S. Múlasýsla, d. in New Iceland on December 24, 1919.
Children: 1. Magnús b. 1865 2. Snjólaug b. 1866. Four children died in childhood. Jón had 2 children with Petrína Jónsdóttir at Berufjarðarströnd: 1. Guðný b. January 12, 1876 2. Sveinbjörn b. February 17, 1878. Both came west with their father.
They came west to Nova Scotia in 1879 and were there three years. They moved west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1882 where they lived until 1885 but then moved to New Iceland and settled in the Víðirnes settlement.