ID: 5084
Date of birth : 1842
Place of birth : Barðastrandasýsla
Date of death : 1905
Björn Jósefsson was born on August 14, 1842 in Barðastrandarsýsla. He died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905.
Spouse: Þóra Guðmundsdóttir b. 1848, d. August 22, 1943.
Children: 1. Herdís Ketilríður b. 1869 2. Nýmundur Sakarías b. 1870 3. Sigríður Guðrún b. 1873 4. Jóhanna b. 1875 5. Bjarni, remained in Iceland. Born in the west: 6. Benedikt 7. Guðmundur 8. Þórður 9. Ólafur 10. Magnea.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883 and went from there to N. Dakota. They moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905 and took land in the Kandahar/Dafoe area.