ID: 7722
Date of birth : 1857
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1943
Móníka Friðbjörnsdóttir was born in 1857 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died on November 29, 1943 in Winnipeg. She took the name Monika Thompson in the west.
Spouse: Gísli Magnús Tómasson b. October 12, 1863 in Strandasýsla, d. in New Iceland on September 3, 1908. He took the last name Thompson in the west.
Children: 1. Pétur 2. Sesselja 3. Solveig d. 1951 4. Margrét 5. Rósa.
Móníka emigrated in 1886. Gísli came west to Winnipeg in 1884 with his parents, Tómas Jón Jónsson and Þóra Gísladóttir. They settled in New Iceland where Gísli worked as a newspaper and magazine editor.