ID: 13154
Date of birth : 1844
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1902
Rannveig Þorleifsdóttir was born in N. Múlasýsla on November 22, 1844. She died on May 25, 1902.
Spouse: 1874 Benedikt Jónsson b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1845, d. in Bellingham, Washington on November 7, 1910. He took the last name Austmann in the west.
Children: 1. Hildigerður b. 1875 2. Halldór Þorleifur 3. Jón Ólafur 4. Sigríður Jóhanna. They had four other children who died young.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and settled in New Iceland. They took land in the Víðir Settlement and named it Stararskóg. In 1881, they moved to Miklabæ in the same settlement where they lived until 1888 when they moved to Selkirk. After several years, they moved west to the Pacific coast and settled in Bellingham, Washington.