Pétur Illugason

ID: 5981
Date of birth : 1875
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1917

Pétur Illugason was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1875. He died in Saskatchewan on April 13, 1917.

Spouse: Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir b. in Barðastrandarsýsla in 1866, d. September 28, 1938.

Pétur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba at the age of 13 years old in 1888. He traveled with Guðmundur Jónsson and his family from Gafli in Svínavatnshreppur. Guðrún came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1891 and married Jóhannes Sigurðsson two years later. He died in 1894 in the Argyle Settlement.