ID: 18902
Date of birth : 1835
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Þorbjörg Snæbjörnsdóttir was born in 1835 in Árnessýsla.
Spouse: Friðleifur Jónsson b. in Árnessýsla in 1834.
Children: 1. Jón b. 1866 2. Halldór b. 1870 3. Ingibjörg b. 1875 4. Friðbjörg b. 1882.
They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in the last decade of the 19th century. They took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and lived for a few years in the Foam Lake settlement. They sold their land and moved away, likely to the Pacific coast which is exactly what their sons Jón and Halldór did.