Guðfinna Benediktsdóttir

ID: 4126
Date of birth : 1838
Place of birth : Dalasýsla

Guðfinna Benediktsdóttir was born in Dalasýsla on April 26, 1838. She died in Manitoba after 1911.

Spouse: Sigurður Guðbrandsson born in Dalasýsla on May 5, 1834.

Children: 1. Lárentína b. January 6, 1869, d. April 25, 1912 2. Guðfinna b. May 22, 1872, d. in Winnipeg 3. Guðbrandur b. April 26, 1873 4. Gestur b. September 14, 1878. Two children remained in Iceland: 1. Benedikt b. April 8, 1875, d. July 10, 1950 2. Kristín b. October 7, 1877, d. November 15, 1952.

Sigurður and Guðfinna came west to Winnipeg in 1882 and soon moved south to N. Dakota. They lived there nine years before moving back to Winnipeg.