Guðríður Einarsdóttir

ID: 11102
Date of birth : 1870
Date of death : 1962

Guðríður Einarsdóttir was born in Reykjavík on September 9, 1866. She died in Manitoba in 1962.

Spouse: April 8, 1893 Bjarni Þorsteinsson b. March 14, 1860 in Árnessýsla, d. in Manitoba in 1945. He took the last name Eastmann in the west.

Children: 1. Gestur 2. Þorsteinn b. 1900 3. Vilfred 4. Ólöf 5. Ann 6. Karl

Bjarni and Guðríður came west in 1892 and a year later Reverend Jón Bjarnason married them in Winnipeg. They lived the first year in Winnipeg but then moved to the Argyle settlement. From there they headed north to the Narrows where they lived until 1898. That year they went to Big Point. A major flood in Lake Manitoba in the spring of 1902 drove them off their land and they lived just north of Westbourne for two years. They then went back to their land and were successful in farming there.