Anna Benediktsdóttir

ID: 9683
Date of birth : 1854
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1942

Anna Benediktsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla on December 24, 1854. She died in California on November 26, 1942.

Spouse: Sigtryggur Kristjánsson b. in Kasthvammur in S. Þingeyjarsýsla, November 18, 1850. He died in San Francisco on May 12, 1936. He took the first name Sigtrig in the west.

Children: 1. Regína Magdalena b. September 13, 1879 2. Benedikt b. February 28, 1881, d. November 11, 1969 in Akureyri 3. Áskell b. April 19, 1884 4. Ragnar b. May 28, 1887. Twin sons, Sigurður and Þorgeir died at a few years at Kasthvammur.

They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1907 and, later the same year, moved to Blaine, Washington. Later they moved to Seattle and then San Francisco.