ID: 8169
Date of birth : 1843
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Kristján Kristjánsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1843. He took the last name Skagfjörð in the west.
Spose: Ásta Þóra Jónasdóttir b. 1833 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. 1908 in Manitoba.
Children: 1. Jón b. 1866 2. Þóra b. 1868. Both children died of smallpox in New Iceland in 1877. They took in two foster sons in N. Dakota; one name Jón and the other Aðalsteinn. Both too the last name Skagfjörð.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and settled in New Iceland. In the spring of 1879, the moved and took land west of the town of Cavalier, N. Dakota. They moved again in 1902 and settled in the Álftárdals Settlement.