Guðleif Árnadóttir

ID: 13968
Date of birth : 1865
Date of death : 1951

Guðleif Árnadóttir was born on October 24, 1865 in Mjóafjörður in N. Múlasýsla. She died on March 14, 1951.

Spouse: 1891 Jón Jónsson b. at Setberg in Hornafjörður in E. Skaftafellssveit on May 30, 1864, d. April 1, 1928. He took the last name Hornfjörð in the west.

Children: 1. Bergþór b. 1892, d. 1894.  2. Bergþóra (Begga Pell) b. May 16, 1894, d. March 3, 1940 3. Kristrún (Rúna) Guðmundína b. April 3, 1896, d. August 15, 1927 4. Helgi b. July 3, 1897 5. Sesselja b February 12, 1900 6. Þorsteinn b. September 9, 1907, d. August 14, 1924. They also raised foster son Emil Sigurðsson b. September 2, 1892.

They came west to Manitoba in 1890, settled in the Ísafold settlement, and lived there 10 years. They moved onto land in the Framnes settlement in 1901 and lived there 20 years. They then moved west to Leslie, Saskatchewan in 1922.