ID: 1041
Date of birth : 1876
Guðrún Pétursdóttir was born on February 8, 1876 in Árnessýsla.
Spouse: 1898 Jónas Jónasson b. in Húnavatnssýsla on September 11, 1867, d. in Winnipeg on April 21, 1941.
Childless, but they raised Guðrún Ívarsdóttir, Guðrún’s sister’s daughter.
Guðrún came to the West in 1888 with her parents, Pétur Einarsson and Halla Magnúsdóttir, and siblings. She had a hard time in the west, divorced her husband and moved back to Iceland in 1904. Jónas came west in 1890, together with his sister Guðrún and her husband Jón Skúlason. He settled in Winnipeg and lived there after that.