Guðrún Torfadóttir

ID: 20242
Date of birth : 1865
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla

Guðrún Torfadóttir was born in N. Múlasýsla on March 17, 1865.

Spouse: 1) Sigurður Jónsson Scheving, the divorced 2) 1894 Hreggviður Sigurðsson b. 1864 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. d. in Lundar 1934.

Children: With Sigurður: 1. Stefán Herbert b. May 5, 1893 With Hreggviður: 1. Henry Raymond b. 1894 2. Kristín Hilda b, May 14, 1896 3. Sigurður b. 1899 4. Elín b. 1903.

Guðrún came west in 1892. She moved with her son to N. Dakota and worked as a housekeeper there before she met Hreggviður. Hreggviður came to the West in 1876 with his siblings and his widowed mother, Kristín Jónatansdóttir. They were in New Iceland for the first few years, but later moved to N. Dakota. Hreggviður lived there with his wife and children until 1926, then moved to Lundar, Manitoba.