ID: 6670
Date of birth : 1856
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Ólafur Andrésson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1856. He took the last name Anderson in the west.
Spouse: Guðrún Þorleifsdóttir b. 1858 in Skagafjarðarsýsla.
Children: 1. Jóhann Pétur b. July 15, 1894, d. August 12, 1946. Information is needed on their other children.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 and after a few years in Manitoba, they moved in 1892 to the Lögberg Settlement in Saskatchewan. They arrived there at a very difficult time because the settlement on the plains was then going through a huge drought. Ólafur brought ten cattle and he managed to graze enough so that the animals survived a very harsh winter.