ID: 5894
Date of birth : 1852
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1921
Guðrún Illugadóttir was born on January 19, 1852 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died in Blaine, WA on January 24, 1921.
Spouse: Halldór Sæmundsson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla on September 12, 1857, d. in Blaine, Washington on June 10, 1841.
Children: 1. Jóhannes b. in Húnavatnssýsla on May 10, 1884. He took the last name Húnfjörð in the west.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1900 and settled in the Árnes settlement in New Iceland where they named their land Baldurshagi. Due to Guðrún’s illness, the family moved to Winnipeg and from there to Vancouver in 1907. A year later they went to Blaine, Washington.