Ólafur Magnússon

ID: 3173
Date of birth : 1859
Place of birth : Mýrasýsla
Date of death : 1909

Ólafur Magnússon was born in Mýrasýsla in 1859. He died in N. Dakota in 1909.

Spouse: 1888 Ásgerður Guðmundsdóttir b. 1864.

Children: 1. Hjartfríður b. March 24, 1889 2. Ingiríður b. February 24, 1891 3. Magnús Christopher b, February 27, 1893 4. Sigríður b. 1894 5. Ásthildur b. 1899 6. Hjörtur b. 1902 7. Magnús Albert b. 1904 8. Elín b. 1906 9. Emil b. February 17, 1908.

Ólafur and Ásgerður came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and took land in the Akra Settlement.  There they were married. Traveling west with them was Ólafur’s mother, Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir, age 65.