Rósa Ólafsdóttir

ID: 3966
Date of birth : 1850
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1915

Rósa Ólafsdóttir was born on December 17, 1850 in Dalasýsla. She died in Tantallon, Saskatchewan on March 20, 1915.

Spouse: 1885 Þórður Þórðarson b. 1830 in Vopnafjörður, N. Múlasýsla, d. May 18, 1904.

Children: 1. Lára Sesselja.

Rósa came west in 1883 and settled in Winnipeg. She moved with Þórður to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan in 1886 and lived there until 1906. She moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) with her daughter and son-in-law who settled near Elfros. Rósa moved with them to Tantallon in 1914.