ID: 19009
Date of birth : 1885
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1952
Elín Andrésdóttir born in Skagafjarðarsýsla on May 29, 1885. She died in Manitoba on September 22, 1952.
Spouse: December 22, 1907 Guðjón Einarsson b. in E. Skaftafellssýsla on September 12, 1883, d. December 24, 1946.
Children: 1. Björn Andrés b. April 1, 1910. Two other children died in childhood.
Elín emigrated west in 1888 to Winnipeg, Manitoba with her foster parents, Birni J. Björnsson and Ingibjörg Brynjólfsdóttir. They bought land in the Ísafoldar Settlement and lived there until 1901. When Lake Winnipeg flooded, the family moved and bought land in the Árdals-Framnes Settlement. Elín and Guðjón met there, but bought part of the farm his father, Einar Stefansson, owned in the Víðir Settlement.