ID: 2052
Date of birth : 1846
Place of birth : Mýrasýsla
Date of death : 1938
Rafn Guðmundsson: Born in Norðurárdal in Mýrasýsla on September 25, 1846 and died in Manitoba on November 24, 1938. He took the name Nordal in the west.
Spouse: Vigdís Sigurðardóttir born in Dalasýsla in 1853. Died on February 7, 1911.
Children: 1) Sigurlaug 2) Lárus 3) Guðmundur 4) Ása 5) Sigurrós 6) Steinunn 7) Jakobína 8) Benedikt 9) Jóhannes 10) Jón Ágúst.
Rafn came west in 1878 and went to Markland, Nova Scotia. He lived there briefly before moving west to the plains and taking land in the Argyle Settlement in 1882.