ID: 4348
Date of birth : 1859
Place of birth : Strandasýsla
Date of death : 1935
Guðmundur Þorláksson was born in Strandasýsla on November 7, 1859. He died in Markerville, Alberta on November 1, 1935. He took the last name Thorlakson in the west.
Spouse: 1890 Guðbjörg Björnsdóttir b. in Strandasýsla on July 11, 1853, d. May 5, 1945.
Children: 1. Björn. Two other children died in childhood.
He came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and spent the first winter in N. Dakota. He moved west to Calgary, Alberta in 1888 and lived there three years. His life’s road led him north to Markerville and took land on the Medecine river and lived there after that.