Guðjón Sveinsson

ID: 18078
Date of birth : 1856
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1936

Guðjón Sveinsson Storm

Ingiríður Sigurðardóttir

Guðjón Sveinsson was born on February 8, 1856 in N. Múlasýsla. He died on November 29, 1936. He took the last name Storm in the west.

Spouse: Ingiríður Sigurðardóttir b. August 31, 1879 in N. Múlasýsla

Children: 1) Sveinn Júlíus b. July 13, 1898 2) Helga b. April 17, 1900, d. January 6, 1926 3) Sigurður b. June 25, 1904 4) Lillian Guðlaug b. June 19, 1906 5) Ágúst b. October 19, 1907, d. September 9, 1908 6) Friðjón Tryggvi b. 1913 7) Kristján b. 1916 8) Murrey b. February 23, 1923.

Guðjón came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1879 and then settled in the Argyle Settlement in 1882, taking land southwest of Glenboro. He lived there until the turn of the century, then went to the Southern Cypress settlement and bought land southeast of the Cypress River. Ingiríður came west with her mother and brother to Manitoba in 1893.