ID: 19427
Date of birth : 1874
Place of birth : Hnappadalssýsla
Date of death : 1923
Eiríkur Sigurðsson: Born in Hnappadalssýsla in 1874. He took the last name Bardason in the west. He died in 1923.
Spouse: 1899 Margrét Sigurðardóttir
Children: 1. Arnaldur 2. Ingiríður 3. Valgerður 4. Sigurður Nordal 5. Sigrún 6. Edgard 7. Guðmundur Hernit.
Western sources say he moved with his parents west in 1888, but his Icelandic father, Sigurd Bárðason, traveled west alone in 1886. Eiríkur worked on construction in Manitoba before taking land in the Geysir Settlement that he named Láland. He moved to the land in 1901.