ID: 6297
Date of birth : 1831
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1911
Sæunn Sigurðardóttir was born in 1831 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died in Selkirk in 1911.
Spouse: 1871 Jónas Leó Hjálmarsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1843, d. in Selkirk, Manitoba on May 18, 1918. He was known as Leó west.
Children: 1. Hjörtur b. 1875, better known in the West as Reverend Hjörtur Léo.
They moved west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883 and settled in New Iceland. They took land in the Víðirnes settlement, which they called Nýstaðir. From there they moved to Nýjabær in the same settlement and after a few years there, they moved to Selkirk.