ID: 10630
Date of birth : 1850
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1899
Aðaljón Guðmundsson Photo Almanak 1931
Aðaljón Guðmundsson was born in Þistilfjörður N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1850. Died in December, 1899.
Spouse: Ólöf Jónsdóttir b. 1858 at Hólsfjöllum in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1858. They married in 1879 and came west that year.
Children: They had 12 children, but 6 died in infancy. All others came west: 1. Ólafur Soffonías 2. Kristín Soffía 3. Guðjón 4. Emilía Laufey 5. Kári Vilbert 6. Þrúður Margrét.
They spent the first year in Moorhead, Minnesota. They moved to North Dakota and settled in the vicinity of the village of Acton. There they lived in an Icelandic community for 19 years, then moved to Red Deer Point in Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba in 1899.