Ingibjörg Jósepsdóttir

ID: 4180
Date of birth : 1873
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1946

Ingibjörg Jósepsdóttir was born on May 27, 1873. She died in Winnipeg on May 11, 1946. She had the last name Johnson in the west.

Spouse: Kristján Jónsson b. 1873 in Hnappadalssýsla.

Children:  Four children survived their mother, a daughter in Winnipeg (Mrs. E. Erickson) and three sons, Ted in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð), Kristján and Albert in Winnipeg.

Ingibjörg came west to Winnipeg in 1883 with her parents, Jósep Stefánsson and Jóhanna Bjarnadóttir, and siblings. Ingibjörg and Kristján lived in Winnipeg where Kristján worked as a carpenter. They moved west to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) and settled in Leslie where Kristján had a meat shop and raised cattle on his own land. They later moved back to Winnipeg.