ID: 10208
Date of birth : 1843
Place of birth : N.Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1908
Ólafur Torfason was born on April 24, 1843 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in Manitoba in 1908.
Spouse: July 7, 1881 Sigríður Einarsdóttir b. July 21, 1853, d. July 19, 1944.
Children: 1. Guðlaug b. July 4, 1884 2. Einar b. 1888, d. in Cypress River, Manitoba, 1898 3. Edward (Elli) b. September 4, 1896 4. Einarína Ingibjörg b. March 20, 1899.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba and 1888 and went directly to the Fljóts settlement in New Iceland. The stay there was short because they moved to the Argyle settlement a year later and after a few years of living among the farmers there, they settled in Cypress River where they lived for a few years but in 1899 they settled in Selkirk and lived there after that.