Sigurbjörg Tómasdóttir

ID: 8194
Date of birth : 1873
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1937

Sigurbjörg Tómasdóttir was born on December 28, 1873 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. She died on November 7, 1937 in N. Dakota.

Spouse: 1893 Ólafur Kristinsson b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on August 19, 1870. He died in the Garðar Settlement on December 7, 1943. He took the last name Olafson in the west.

Children: 1. Katrín b. September 24, 1894 2. Pétur b. January 25, 1897 3. Guðrún Anna b. September 22, 1900 4. Kristinn b. April 2, 1902 5. Aðalbjörg b. June 21, 1905.

Sigurbjörg was the daughter of Tómas Jóhannsson and Guðrún Árnadóttir who came west to N. Dakota in 1888. Ólafur came west to Canada in 1873 with his parents, Kristinn Ólafsson and Katrín Ólafsdóttir. They moved south to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and then west to Minnesota in 1876. They then settled in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota in 1880.