Andrea Tryggvadóttir

ID: 17488
Born west
Date of birth : 1891
Date of death : 1966

Andrea Tryggvadóttir was born on May 30, 1891 in Akra, N. Dakota. She died in February 5, 1966 in Manitoba.

Spouse: July 18, 1914 Edward Lárus Eiríksson b. in Minneota, Minnesota on April 26, 1886, d. November 28, 1964. He is listed as Johnson in the west.

Children: Sigrún Jóhanna 2. Kristine 3. Edward Lionel. They also raised George Bessason.

Andrea was the daughter of Jónas Tryggvi Ingjaldsson and Hólmfríður Andrésardóttir who settled in N. Dakota in 1886. Andrea grew up in the Akra Settlement but graduated in Winnipeg. Edward was the son of Eiríkur Jónsson and Vilborg Stefánsdóttir who came west in 1878. They lived in Minneota, Minnesota, moved to Duluth a few years before the turn of the century, and then went on to the Akra Settlement in N. Dakota. They took land in Manitoba in 1901 and lived in the Árdals-Framnes Settlement.