ID: 7707
Date of birth : 1875
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1933
Pétur Þorfinnsson was born in 1875 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. He died on May 20, 1933 in Hennepin County in Minnesota.
Spouse: Dýrfinna Sigurðardóttir b. 1893 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She was known as Finna in the west.
Children: 1. Violet b. February 1, 1913, d. 1994 2. Vivian b. 1917 3. Margrét b. 1921.
Pétur came west in 1893 and moved to where his parents, Þorfinnur Jóhannesson and Elísabet Pétursdóttir, lived in N. Dakota. Guðfinna came west in 1899 with her parents, Sigurður Björnsson and Steinunn Jónasdóttir. Pétur and Finna lived in the Thingvalla Settlement in N. Dakota in 1930 and her father lived with them.