Guðbjörg J Guðmundsdóttir

ID: 19138
Date of birth : 1864
Place of birth : Strandasýsla
Date of death : 1954

Guðbjörg Jónína Guðmundsdóttir was born on January 12, 1864 in Strandasýsla. She died on February 27, 1954.

Spouse: 1885 Magnús Sigurbjörnsson b. August 26, 1857 in N. Múlasýsla, d. October 9, 1944. He took the last name Snowfield in the west.

Children: 1. Hallfríður b. in Mountain on October 30, 1885 2. Guðmundur Gísli b. November 25, 1887 3. Magnús Jóhannes b. March 3, 1891 4. Guðný stillborn 5. Sigurbjörn b. February 1, 1894, d. 1918 6. Þórarinn Björn b. November 1, 1897 7. Friðbjörn b. November 24, 1900 8. Ellis Guðni b. April 18, 1904, d. September 14, 1955.

Magnús emigrated west with his father and sister in 1879 and spent the first year in Ontario where he worked on constructing the railway. He moved west to the Thingvalla Settlement in N. Dakota in the fall of 1880 and bought land near his father a short distance from Mountain. He lived there until 1899, when he sold his land and moved near the town of Hannah north of the Canadian border. He lived there until 1925, then moved to Fargo, N. Dakota. Guðbjörg was the daughter of Guðmundur Sakaríasson and Guðný Tómasdóttir and was registered with her mother in the village in Fellssókn in Strandasýsla in 1880. It is uncertain what year she moved west, but it was probably in 1882.