Jakobína Jakobsdóttir

ID: 8669
Date of birth : 1863
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla

 Jakobína Guðrún Jakobsdóttir was born at Tjörnes in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1863.

Spouse: October 8, 1888 Ólafur Sigtryggur Þorgeirsson b. in Akureyri in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on September 16, 1864, d. in Manitoba on February 19, 1937. He took the last name Thorgeirsson in the west.

Children: 1. Kjartan b. September 6, 1889, d. August 21, 1891 2. Ólafía Sigríður b. January 5, 1894, d. August 4, 1917 3. Ragnheiður b. August 8, 1897, d. August 21, 1904 4. Geir b. September 28, 1901, d. April 2, 1959 5. Ólafur Sigtryggur b. August 1, 1904 6. Ragnheiður b. August 1, 1904 7. Karólína 8. Jakobína.

Jakobína came west to Winnipeg in 1883, a year before her parents, Jakob Oddsson and Sigurbjörg Jónsdóttir, and siblings.  Ólafur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887, the same year as his parents and siblings. He lived the rest of his life in Winnipeg and was one of the key members of Icelandic society in the city, in fact in the whole of Western Icelandic society.