Klementína I Magnúsdóttir

ID: 6069
Date of birth : 1863
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla

Klementína Ingibjörg Magnúsdóttir was born in 1863 in Húnavatnssýsla. She was known as Emma or Clementina Hanson in the west.

Sposue: Pétur Hanson b. in Denmark in 1846. He was known as Petur Hanson or Hans P. Hanson in the west.

Children: 1. Emil b. 1886 2. Clements W. b. 1888 3. Magdalena Laura b. 1890 4. Albert George b. 1893.

Klementína came west to Canada in 1875 with her father, Magnús Brynjólfsson, his wife, Elísabet Klemensdóttir, and half-siblings. They settled in Markland, Nova Scotia and named their land Bólstaðarhlíð. Life’s road led them to N. Dakota. It is not clear where Pétur and Ingibjörg’s paths lay, she probably lived in Duluth, Minnesota from 1883 where their children were born. Western sources say that Pétur had an Icelandic mother and a Danish father. Nothing is known about his journey west, but in the 1895 Census in Minnesota, he lived in Duluth with Clementine and children and worked as a shoemaker. They have a Sadie Brynjolfson living with them who could be Sigríður, Klementína’s half-sister.