ID: 5800
Date of birth : 1869
Place of birth : Gullbringusýsla
Date of death : 1930
Geir Kristjánsson was born in Gullbringusýsla in 1859. He died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in 1930. He took the last name Christianson in the west.
Spouse: Sesselja Rakel Sveinsdóttir b. 1873, d. March 29, 1915.
Children: 1. Sigríður 2. Halldóra Kristín 3. Björg Sigurlína 4. Kristján William.
They came west to Grand Forks, N. Dakota in 1889. Geir worked there as a carpenter. He took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1904 and lived on his land there in 1905. They were in the Wynyard community.
Geir, Sigríður, Sesselja Rakel, Halldóra, Björg and Kristján William. The family stands by a pile of firewood, which was the most valuable asset of every settler in every autumn of the settlement years. Photo: RbQ