Árni Árnason

ID: 10551
Date of birth : 1849
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla

Árni Árnason: Born in Skógum in Axarfjord in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1849. He took the last name of Axford in the west.

Spouse: 1889 Guðbjörg Jónsdóttir born in 1854. She died in 1903.

Children: 1) Sigurbjörg 2) Guðmundur 3) Friðrik 4) Herbert (Herberg?)

They came west in 1887 and Árni worked in a quarry. They took land in the Argyle Settlement in 1889. They moved to Glenboro around the turn of the century.