ID: 5801
Date of birth : 1857
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1915
Sesselja Rakel Sveinsdóttir was born in 1857 in Skagafjörður. She died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) on March 29, 1915.
Spouse: Geir Kristjánsson b. in Gullbringusýsla in 1859. He took the last name Christianson in the west.
Children: 1. Sigríður 2. Halldóra Kristín 3. Björg Sigurlína 4. Kristján William.
They came west to Grand Forks, N. Dakota in 1889. Geir worked there as a carpenter. He took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1904 and moved there in 1905. They were in the Wynyard community.