Guðný Halldórsdóttir

ID: 13233
Date of birth : 1864
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla

Guðný Halldórsdóttir was born in 1864 in N. Múlasýsla.

Spouse: October 23, 1886 Magnús Hjörleifsson born in N. Múlasýsla on November 23, 1865.

Children: 1. Anna Sigríður b. 1887 2. Halldór b. 1889 3. Arngrímur Jóhann b. July 12, 1893, d. November 5, 1918 in France in WW I 4. Jón b. October 29, 1894 5. Skúli b. March 14, 1895 6. Björn.

Magnús came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1893 and, in the same year, travelled from there to Minnesota in the United States. Life’s road led him back north to New Iceland in 1895 and he settled in the Víðirnes Settlement a year later. From there, he moved in 1920 to Selkirk and later to Riverton.