Guðfinna Ögmundsdóttir

ID: 18954
Date of birth : 1873
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1951

Guðfinna Ögmundsdóttir was born on May 29, 1873 in Húnavatnssýsla. She died on August 4, 1951 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Spouse: 1906 Guðmundur Jónsson b. May 8, 1882 in S. Múlasýsla, d. March 11, 1959. He took the last name Austfjord in the west.

Children: 1. Jósefína Kristín (Chrissie) b. November 19, 1906 2. Margrét b. 1908 3. Ögmundur Sigurður (Siggi) b. March 17, 1917, d. April 8, 2003 4. Jón Ásgeir b. 1915, d. September 7, 1934.

Guðfinna came west to Canada in 1903. Guðmundur came west the same year with his mother, Guðrún Björg Guðmundsdóttir, and Margrét Sigurjónsdóttir, the 8 year-old daughter of Sigurjón Jónsson, Guðmundur’s brother. They moved to the Akra Settlement in N. Dakota the first year, but moved in 1904 to New Iceland and lived for awhile in the Hnausa Settlement. Life’s road led from there to Grund in the Geysir Settlement and they lived in Arborg until 1914, but then they moved up to Mikley (Hecla) after a number of years.  They moved to Selkirk in 1918 and ended up at Skógum in Mikley (Hecla) in 1927.