ID: 12278
Date of birth : 1839
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1931
Árni Sigurðsson was born in N. Múlasýsla in 1839. Died in Saskatchewan April 7, 1931.
Spouse: Kristjana Soffía Stefánsdóttir b. January 12, 1838 in N. Múlasýsla, d. December 14, 1912.
Children: 1. Sveinn b. 1869 2. Þórður b. 1873 3. Gunnlaugur b. 1876 4. Rannveig Stefanía b. 1881
Árni and Kristjana came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1892 with Rannveig and Gunnlaug. Sveinn and Þórður had moved there in 1889. Árni took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan after the turn of the century and Þórður did likewise. Both lived near Mozart where Rannveig and her husband Jónas Tómasson also lived.