Sigurbjörg Soffía Ólafsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla on November 14, 1874.
Spouse: May 19, 1891 Edward Lárus Adolph Bernhöft b. in Reykjavík on August 16, 1866, d. in Hensel, N. Dakota on January 8, 1934.
Children: 1. Ólafur Björn b. September 13, 1892 2. Wilhelm George Theodore b. December 2, 1894 3. Louis Ingimar Francisco b. September 8, 1896, d. November 13, 1959 4. Jóhann Edward Ferdinand b. February 16, 1899, d. January 21, 1961 5. Alfred Soffonias Franklin b. June 8, 1901 6. Guðrún Ann Sigríður Lillian b. January 1, 1904 7. Guðmundur Kristján Conrad b. September 26, 1906 8. Brynjólfur Skafti Sigurður b. November 26, 1907 9. Guðný Kristjana Mabel b. May 9, 1909 10. Magnea Sigríður Dýrleif b. September 11, 1911 11. Jóhanna Lucinda María b. June 7, 1912 12. Magnús Brynjólfur b. August 1, 1914 13. Ottó Lawrence b. November 11, 1916 14. Leonard Alvin b. January 24, 1917 15. Orville Theodore Clinton b. November 27, 1918.
Sigurbjörg was the daughter of Ólafur Björn Brynjólfsson who came west to Canada before Sigurbjörg was born. She came west to Canada in 1876 with her mother, Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir, and they settled in New Iceland. There, Guðrún married Guðmundur Guðmundsson Norðmann in 1877 and the couple moved to the Argyle Settlement in 1881. Guðrún died there in 1887 and Sigurbjörg was placed into foster care. Edward Lárus was of Danish descent, and worked as a young man in Reykjavík and studied commerce in Copenhagen. He moved from there west to Canada in 1890 and settled in the Argyle Settlement in Manitoba, a short distance from Glenboro. They moved, newly married, south to N. Dakota where Edward later bought land in Hensel and they lived there the rest of their lives.
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