Guðrún Eyjólfsdóttir

ID: 1340
Date of birth : 1829
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Date of death : 1898

Guðrún Eyjólfsdóttir was born in Árnessýsla in 1829. She died on March 30, 1898 in Manitoba.

Spouse: Tómas Ingimundarson b. in Árnessýsla in 1831, d. in Manitoba on February 13, 1899.

Children: 1. Jón b. 1856 2. Guðfinna b. 1861 3. Eyjólfur b. 1862 4. Ragnheiður b. 1863 5.  Guðrún b. 1864 6. Bjarni b. 1867 7. Katrín b. 1878 8. Guðrún b. 1873

They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1886 with six children, Bjarni arrived there a year later. They took land in the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan and lived there a number of years before moving to the Tantallon Settlement and lastly to Big Point, Manitoba.