ID: 16574
Date of birth : 1862
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Date of death : 1954
Egill Egilsson was born on March 7, 1862 in Árnessýsla. He died in Gimli on March 4, 1954.
Spouse: June 8, 1900 Guðveig Jónsdóttir b. May 16, 1858 in Mýrasýsla, d. September 24, 1946 in Gimli.
Children: 1. Bjarni Ásgeir b. February 11, 1901, d. February 27, 1965.
Egill came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1897 where he and Guðveig lived until the spring of 1917, when Egill bought two parcels of land at Big Point on Lake Manitoba that Ólafur Hannesson had owned. They lived there until 1924, but then moved to Gimli. Guðveig came west in 1889 with a boy, his nephew, Jón Þorvarðarson (J. J. Swanson in the west).