ID: 9727
Date of birth : 1879
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Karl, Sveinbjörg, Sigurður, Lára and Hafsteinn Photo: RbQ
Sigurður Guðnason was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1879.
Spouse 1915 Sveinbjörg Sveinsdóttir b. 1889 in Efriey in W. Skaftafellssýsla.
Children: 1. Lára (Laura) b. 1919 2. Hafsteinn b. 1921 3. Karl (Carl) b. 1923. Their first child, Hafsteinn, died in 1918.
Sigurður came west with his parents and siblings to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1893. He grew up in the Argyle Settlement and took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1906, living in the Kandahar/Dafoe area. Sveinbjörg was the daughter of Sveinn Ingimundsson and Karítas Þorsteinsdóttir of W. Skaftafellssýsla. Her brother was Jóhannes Kjarval, painter in Iceland.