Anna Sveinsdóttir

ID: 14822
Date of birth : 1848
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1936

Anna Sveinsdóttir was born on August 20, 1848 in S. Múlasýsla. She died in N. Dakota on July 8, 1936.

Spouse: 1884 Einar Einarsson b. in W. Skaftafellssýsla on March 2, 1859, d. in N. Dakota  on May 26, 1937. He took the last name Mýrdal in the west.

Children: 1. Sveinn Kjartan b. September 5, 1885 2. Björn K. b. January 30, 1889 3. Valdimar Árni b. April 16, 1891.

Einar came west to Markland, Nova Scotia in 1878 and lived there until 1882. He then bought land in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota. Anna came west to Markland with her parents, Sveinn Árnason and Ingibjörg Björnsdóttir, in the same year as Einar.