ID: 4105
Date of birth : 1878
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1922
Lilja Kristín Sveinbjarnardóttir was born in Dalasýsla on November 7, 1878. She died on April 22, 1922.
Spouse: Jón Bersveinsson b. in Dalasýsla on September 29, 1880, d. in Saskatchewan in 1971.
Children: 1. Sesselja Margrét (Cecilia) 2. Áslaug 3. Ólína 4. Katrín Guðbjörg 5. Jónína Lillian 6. Brandur.
Jón came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 with his parents who settled in Winnipeg. Jón moved to the Argyle Settlement with his mother in 1891 and from there he moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1906 and took land in the Wynyard area. Lilja came west with her mother, Katrín Guðbrandsdóttir, and stepfather in 1883.