Margrét Sigurðardóttir

ID: 4168
Date of birth : 1867
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1946

Margrét Sigurðardóttir  Photo: Dm

Margrét Sigurðardóttir was born on September 11, 1867 in Dalasýsla. She died in Saskatchewan on July 17, 1946.

Spouse: 1892 Jóhannes Jónsson b. November 22, 1856 in Dalasýsla, d. January 17, 1921 in the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan. He took the last name Markusson in the west.

Children: 1. Gísli 2. Sigríður.

Jóhannes was the son of Jón Markússon at Spágilsstaðir and Guðrún Arngrímsdóttir. Margrét and Jóhannes came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1891 and lived there 15 years.  They sold their house and moved west to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan and lived there after that.