ID: 17028
Date of birth : 1876
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1961
Ólafur Oddsson
Jensína Guðrún Sveinsdóttir
Ólafur Oddsson was born in Dalasýsla on February 20, 1876. He died in Saskatchewan on October 16, 1961. He took the name Olafur O. Magnusson in the west.
Spouse: Jensína Guðrún Sveinsdóttir b. in Snæfellsnessýsla in 1877, d. June 6, 1861.
Children: 1. Margrét Oddrún 2. Anna Jónína 3. Valtýr.
Ólafur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his parents in 1886 and went with them to N. Dakota, and then on to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905 where he took land in the Wynyard community. Jensína came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba at just 11 years old in 1888.