María Bjarnadóttir was born in N. Múlasýsla in 1887. She died in the Siglunes settlement in Manitoba on October 9, 1923.
Spouse: 1905 Jón Hávarðarson b. in S. Múlasýsla on October 29, 1885, d. March 12, 1975. He took the name Howardson in the west.
Children: 1. Hávarður Helgi b. 1907 2. Una b. 1910 3. Bjarni Óskar b. 1912 4. Matthildur b. 1913 5. Jón (John) b. 1915 6. Margareth (Diddy) b. 1919, d. 1976 7. Guðmundur (Jim) b. 1921, d. 1981 8. María b. September 7, 1923, d. 1959. All were born in the Siglunes settlement in Manitoba.
Jón was the son of Hávarður Guðmundsson and Helga Jónsdóttir who came to Manitoba from Kirkjuból in S. Múlasýsla in 1888. María was the daughter of Bjarni Torfason and Katrín Gissurardóttir, who came west to Manitoba in 1892 from Fjarðarölda in N. Múlasýsla. Jón was a farmer in the Siglunes settlement.