Ingibjörg Eggertsdóttir

ID: 3783
Date of birth : 1830
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1900

Ingibjörg Eggertsdóttir was born at Rauðseyjar in Dalasýsla on October 24, 1830. She died on August 15, 1900 in Selkirk.

Spouse: October 11, 1858  Sigvaldi Þorvaldsson b. April 27, 1828 in Mýrasýsla, d. in Selkirk, Manitoba in 1894.

Children: 1. Kristján (Kris Walterson) b. September 7, 1862 2. Guðlaug b. March 14, 1865 3. Eggert Fjelsted b. March 7, 1868 4. Hjörtur Theódór (Ed Walterson) b. May 16, 1870 5. Þorvaldur (Walter Walterson) b. March 28, 1876. Sigvaldi had Guðjón Gísli Mikael b. September 25, 1859, who died in childhood, with his first wife Guðlaug Jónsdóttir. He also had a child with Gróa Árnadóttir: 1. Sigurgeir (Walterson) b. October 9, 1862.

They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and moved on to New Iceland. They were first in Mikley but then settled in the Fljóts Settlement in 1878. They moved to Selkirk in 1890.