ID: 3938
Date of birth : 1864
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1944
Magnús Kristjánsson Photo: WtW
Margrét Daníelsdóttir Photo: WtW
Magnús Kristjánsson was born in Dalasýsla on July 10, 1864. He died on May 8, 1944 in the Lundar Settlement.
Spouse: 1895 Margrét Dagbjört Daníelsdóttir b. November 21, 1877, d. 1968.
Children: 1. Wilhelm b. December 28, 1896, d. 1979 2. Laura b. 1899, d. 1925 3. Fjóla b. 1901 4. Daníel Kristján b. 1911, d. 1930.
Magnús came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 with his parents and siblings. He soon got a job building a railway on the western plains, but then moved to the Lundar Settlement in 1889, the same year his parents went there. They lived there all the time.