ID: 6658
Date of birth : 1898
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Guðfinnur Pétursson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla on August 31, 1898. He took the name Finnur Bjarnason in the west.
Spouse: Kristín Pálsdóttir from Helgastöðum in New Iceland.
Guðfinnur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1914 with his parents, Pétur Bjarnason and Sigríð Helgadóttir, and his sister Margrét. They settled in Mikley. Finnur studied in Winnipeg in 1920 as a barber and moved to Riverton in 1926 and set up his business there. They later moved to Gimli.