ID: 5364
Date of birth : 1850
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Margrét Bjarnadóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1850.
Spouse: Jóhannes Ólafsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1849.
Children: 1. Bjarni b. 1886 2. Guðlaugur b. in the west. Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, b. 1877, was Margrét’s daughter and came west with them.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887. They lived in New Iceland, but took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and moved there in 1909. They later sold their land and moved back to New Iceland.