Elinborg Jónasdóttir

ID: 5412
Date of birth : 1858
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla

Elínborg Jónasdóttir Bergmann was born in Húnavatnssýsla on May 11, 1858.

Spouse: 1889 Guðmundur Guðmundsson b. July 7, 1845 in S. Múlasýsla, d. in Linton, N. Dakota on December 7, 1945.

Children: 1. Jarþrúður b. October 12, 1892 2. Margrét b. 1893.

Guðmundur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1882 and lived there for some time. In 1885, he took land in the Akra Settlement in N. Dakota, but moved from there in 1905 and settled in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan. Elínborg came west in 1887 with her father, Jónas Bergmann Jónasson, and his second wife, Kristín Jóhannesdóttir. They settled in New Iceland.