Laufey Friðriksdóttir Photo: VÍÆ IV
Laufey Friðriksdóttir was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on December 31, 1884. She died on October 28, 1969 in Holland.
Spouse: August 23, 1912 Johannes Oberman b. October 23, 1887, d. in Holland in 1959.
Children: 1. Friðrik (Fred) b. October 23, 1913 2. Fobbe Pieter b. March 30, 1915, d. October 8, 1941 3. Guðjón Guðmundur b. February 25, 1917, d. 1967 4. Wija Alida b. March 5, 1930 5. Christine b. March 26, 1929, married an Icelandic man and lived in Rangárvallasýsla.
Laufey was the daughter of Friðrik Guðmundson and his first wife Guðrún Jakobsdóttir. She grew up in the home of her father’s brother, Reverend Jón Guðmundsson at Nes in Norðfjörður. She completed her teacher’s degree at Flensborgarskóla and taught in Iceland 1908-1910. She went to England and met her husband there. He was the governor for the Netherlands in Sumatra for some time. They lived in the Netherlands from the 1950s.