ID: 3795
Single parent
Date of birth : 1829
Place of birth : Mýrasýsla
Date of death : 1910
Hólmfríður Hannesdóttir was born in Mýrasýsla on September 12, 1829. She died in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota on March 23, 1910.
Spouse: Vigfús Jónsson d. in Iceland on May 28, 1866.
Children: 1. Jón A. b. 1860, d. 1874 2. Guðrún S. b. 1862 3. Katrín H. 1865.
Hólmfríður came west to Winnipeg in 1889 with her foster son (her brother’s son), Benedikt Benediktsson b. 1873. Furthermore, two foster children, Guðrún Benediktsdóttir and Herborg Valdimarsdóttir. Hólmfríður moved from there to the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota and lived there.