Sigurveig Jónsdóttir

ID: 10845
Date of birth : 1886

Sigurveig Jónsdóttir was born on July 4, 1886 in N. Múlasýsla.

Spouse: February 5, 1912 Jóhannes Guðjónsson b.in N. Múlasýsla on October 9, 1879.

Children: 1. Árni Júlíus b. April 11, 1913 2. Guðjón b. October 1, 1914 3. Daníel b. December 12, 1915 4. Jón b. November 19, 1917, d. in WWII on June 4, 1944 5. Kári b. December 20, 1919 6. Wilhelmína b. September 16, 1921 7. Sigrún b. December 7, 1923 8. Helga b. January 28, 1925 9. Einar b. March 7, 1928.

Sigurveig came west with her father, Jón Árnason, in 1903. Jóhannes came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his parents in 1888 and moved on in the same year to the Garðar settlement in N. Dakota. Jóhannes moved from there to the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan around the turn of the century and took land near Elfros.