ID: 19373
Date of birth : 1888
Place of birth : Ísafjarðarsýsla
Olga Nielsen was born on January 31, 1888 in Ísafjarðarsýsla.
Spouse: Björn Stefánsson b. October 29, 1871 in N. Múlasýsla, d. in Roseau, Minnesota on August 28, 1962.
Children: 1. Stefán 2. Guðrún 3. Anna Katrín 4. Jónas.
Olga was a few months old when her mother Guðrún Halldórsdóttir and her second husband Magnús Davíðsson came west in 1888. Olga’s father was Sophus Jörgen Nielsen, a shop assistant in Ísafjörður. Magnús and Guðrún first lived in Brandon, Manitoba. Björn came west in 1891 and first went to Winnipeg but then settled in Hallson, N. Dakota. He later moved north to Brandon and from there to Selkirk before settling in the Piney Settlement where he lived after that. Magnús and Guðrún first lived in Brandon where Björn met Olga.