ID: 20608
Date of birth : 1884
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Sesselja Björg Sveinsdóttir was born on August 21, 1884 in N. Múlasýsla. She took the last name Paterson with marriage.
Spouse: February 7, 1907 Malcolm Paterson b. July 21, 1881, d. October 20, 1929.
Children: 1. Kenneth Duncan b. September 7, 1909 2. Malcolm Ronald b. February 6, 1912 3. Stewart Graham b. May 11, 1914 4. Douglas b. March 31, 1916 5. Carol b. July 9, 1919.
Sesselja came to the West in 1902, together with Reverend Einar Vigfússon and his family. She lived all the time in Winnipeg where she worked in a sewing shop before marriage.