ID: 1479
Date of birth : 1888
Place of birth : Rangárvallasýsla
Date of death : 1949
Margrét Guðmundsdóttir was born on December 23, 1888 in Rangárvallasýsla. She died in Wynyard in 1949.
Spouse: 1908 Hannes Skúlason b. in Gimli in New Iceland in 1878, d. in Wynyard, Saskatchewan in 1951. He took the last name Anderson in the west.
Children: 1. Sigríður 2. Lára 3. Skúli 4. Kristín (Christine) 5. William 6. Louisa 7. Karl (Carl) 8. Erlendur (Erlend or Earle) 9. Hannes (Hank).
Margrét came west in 1893 with her parents, Guðmundur Egilsson and Katrín Jónsdóttir. They travelled to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hannes was the son of Skúli Árnason and Sigríður Erlendsdóttir, pioneers in New Iceland in 1876. Margrét and Hannes settled in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) north of Wynyard.