Steinunn Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir Photo: VÍÆ
Steinunn Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on March 16, 1902.
Spouse: March 16, 1929 Ingólfur Nikulás Bjarnason b. September 11, 1899 in Reyðarfjörður in S.Múlasýsla.
Children: 1. Jónína Guðbjörg b. March 24, 1931 2. Kristján Níels Júlíus b. August 25, 1935 3. Hulda Frances b. January 16, 1939.
Steinunn Ingibjörg was the daughter of Guðmundur Þorvaldsson and Rósa Sigríður Jónsdóttir, Káin’s sister. She came west by sea in 1913 and went to live with Jóhannes Davíðsson and his wife Jónína Daníelsdóttir, who lived in Leslie in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan. She lived with them until adulthood. Ingólfur came to the West in 1921, went home to Iceland in 1924 and came back west in 1927. He did various jobs in the early years, was, among other things, a fisherman up north in the wilds of Saskatchewan for a while. He lived those years in Leslie in Vatnabyggð. He ended up in Gimli where he was hired as the supervisor of the schools.