Guðrún Arnfinnsdóttir

ID: 3658
Date of birth : 1862
Place of birth : Snæfellsnessýsla
Date of death : 1915

Guðrún Arnfinnsdóttir was born in Snæfellsnessýsla in 1862. She died in Victoria, British Columbia on May 8, 1915.

Spouse: May 19, 1888 Ólafur Jónsson b. in Dalasýsla on October 2, 1863, d. in Victoria, British Columbia on January 10, 1941. He took the name Oliver Johnson in the west.

Children: 1. Jón Valdimar b. August 4, 1889, d. March 21, 1963 2. Björn Ingimar b. December 10, 1890, d. January 12, 1964 3. Lilian b. January 16, 1893, d. March 11, 1969 4. Anna Dagmar b. May 6, 1894.

Guðrún emigrated in 1886 while her siblings Björn and Elísabet had come west in 1883. Guðrún moved to Victoria shortly after coming west. Ólafur came west to Winnipeg in 1881 and lived there two years before moving west to the Pacific and settling in Victoria on Vancouver Island. He lived there the rest of his life.