Guðrún Sigríður Albertsdóttir Photo: Hnausa Reflections
Guðrún Sigríður Albertsdóttir was born in the Geysir settlement on August 6, 1893. She died in Selkirk on March 27, 1965.
Spouse: May 14, 1914 Jakob Guðjónsson b. September 2, 1883 in N. Múlasýsla, d. in Gimli on April 25, 1950.
Children: 1. Albert b. March 10, 1915 2. Jónína Stefanía b. November 27, 1916 3. Árni b. November 17, 1922 4. Sveinn Ingiberg b. April 26, 1926, d. May 24, 1926 5. Sveinbjörg Magnúsína Violet b. January 28, 1928 6. Ástrós Helga Emily b. October 24, 1930 7. Kristinn Sigursteinn b. November 26, 1933.
Guðrún was the daughter of Albert Sigursteinsson and Sigurrós Jónsdóttir in the Geysir settlement. Jakob went to the West in 1903 with his cousins Benedikt and Jón Halldórsson. On arriving in Manitoba, he went to the Icelandic settlement near Otto, where reports came that Magnús Magnússon, a shipowner in Breiðvík in New Iceland, needed men for fishing. Jakob went and got a job with Magnús and lived with him at Eyjólfsstaðir in the Hnausa settlement. Jakop and Guðrún Sigríður started farming and lived in Selsstaðir until the spring of 1915. Then Jakop took his own land and named his farm Jónsstaðir. They lived there after that.