Svanborg Pétursdóttir was born at Skáley in Breiðafjörður in 1864. She died on November 24, 1939 in Vancouver.
Spouse: 1) Jón Jónsson b. in Sauðey in Barðastrandarsýsla in 1856. They divorced. 2) June 20, 1903 Þorlákur Jónasson b. in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1865
Children: With Jón: 1. Pétur b. 1888 2. Ólöf b. 1889. With Þorlákur: 1. Sigurður 2. Jónas 3. Pétur.
Jón and Svanborg came west to Winnipeg in 1891 with their children and Svanborg’s mother, Ólöf. Jón traveled widely, settled in the Thingvalla settlement in N. Dakota, later in Alberta. Þorlákur came west in 1881. He and Svanborg lived in Cavalier County in N. Dakota, but later moved to Saskatchewan and settled in the region near Mozart. Svanborg, then a widow, lived in the Wynyard area before moving west to Vancouver.