ID: 15278
Date of birth : 1886
Place of birth : Hnappadalssýsla
Date of death : 1916
Benjamín Benjamínsson was born in Hnappadalssýsla in 1886. He died in the Árdals Settlement in 1916.
Spouse: 1913 Eiríka Gunnarsdóttir b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla on January 5, 1883, d. February 8, 1963 in the Árdals Settlement. She was listed as Eirikka (Rikka) in the west.
Children: 1. Gunnar b. November 3, 1904 2. John Roosevelt Bjerring b. March 13, 1908 3. Ingibjörg (Inga) Domina b. July 1, 1914.
Benjamín came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 with his parents, Benjamín Magnússon and Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir. Eiríka came west to Canada in 1900 with her parents, Gunnar Guðmundsson and Veronika Eiríksdóttir, and siblings. Benjamín and Eiríka lived in the Árdals Settlement, near Arborg.