ID: 8072
Date of birth : 1830
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1897
Ólafur Ólafsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla February 15, 1834. Died in N. Dakota in 1897.
Spouse: Guðrún Halldórsdóttir born in 1825 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla.
Children: 1. Ólafur b. August 26, 1852, did not emigrate 2. Halldór b. 1856 3. Guðrún Sigríður b. October 4, 1864 4. Grímur b. 1867.
They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and settled in the Árnes Settlement in New Iceland the same year. They named their farm Birkivelli. Later they moved to the Thingvalla Settlement in N. Dakota about 1880.