Kristján Bjarnason

ID: 6817
Date of birth : 1887
Date of death : 1958

Kristján Bjarnason was bornin N. Múlasýsla on May 29, 1887. He died on January 19, 1958 in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan.

Spouse: July 14, 1914 María Á Kristjánsdóttir b. in Osnabrock, N. Dakota on August 7, 1895.

Children: 1. Ólafur Bjarni b. April 10, 1918, d. December 15, 1945 in Italy 2. Kristrún Elma b. September 25, 1921 3. Arnbjörg Ástríður b. January 10, 1923 4. Kristján Marvin b. April 20, 1925 5. Páll Edwin b. November 26, 1927 6. Walther Gísli b. October 24, 1930 7. Haraldur Emil b. October 3, 1934. Two additional children died young.

Kristján came to the West in 1900 with his parents, Bjarni Árnason and Ástríður Sigurðardóttir, early settlers near Kristnes in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð). María moved there in 1905 from N. Dakota with her parents, Kristján Ólafsson and Guðrún Þorláksdóttir. Kristján and María lived in Leslie in Vatnabyggð 1914-1929, in Winnipegosis, Manitoba 1929-1940, and in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan after that.