ID: 19356
Date of birth : 1841
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Kristján Sigurðsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1841. He took the last name Bakkmann in the west.
Spouse: Viktoría Þiðriksdóttir b. 1847 in Húnavatnssýsla, died in N. Dakota on April 21, 1901.
Children: Information on their children is missing. Viktoría had at least two children with her first husband, Jósef Gíslason: 1. Albert Viktor b. 1873 2. Þiðrik Sigmundur b. 1875.
Kristján emigrated west to Ontario, Canada in 1875 and worked in railroad construction in Muskoka. He then moved to New Iceland. Viktoría came west with her husband Jósef and their children a year after Kristján. Kristján and Viktoría settled in N. Dakota in 1882.