ID: 2368
Date of birth : 1856
Place of birth : Borgarfjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1939
Sesselja Guðmundsdóttir was born in 1856 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla. She died on March 15, 1939.
Spouse: Einar Bjarnason b. in Borgarfjarðarsýslu in 1852, d. in Midland, Ontario in 1888.
Children: 1. Guðmundur b. 1881 2. Vigfús b. May 15, 1883, d. January 22, 1951 3. Þórður b. 1886.
They emigrated west to Ontario, Canada in 1887. They moved to Muskoka where Sesselja’s sister, Ingveldur, lived with her husband and children. Einar got a job logging in Midland, Ontario, where he had an accident in early 1888. A tree fell on him and he was killed. Information is missing about the fate of Sesselja and her children other than Vigfús; he always lived in Ontario.