ID: 19492
Date of birth : 1885
Place of birth : Gullbringusýsla
Sigurður Sigurðsson was born in Gullbringusýsla on May 15, 1885.
Spouse: 1915 Guðbjörg Pálsdóttir b. 1896 in the Lundar Settlement in Manitoba, d. 1959 in Keewatin, Ontario.
Children: 1. Sigurður Páll 2. Kar 3. Margrét Sigrún 4. Lilian Olive 5. Dorothy Joan 6. Phyllis Rose Mary Kristín 7. Harald Baldwin.
Sigurður worked as a seaman in Iceland and England before moving west by sea in 1911. He has probably studied the conditions by the great lakes in Manitoba and met Guðbjörg there. They moved to Keewatin, Ontario, where Magnus, Sigurður’s half-brother, lived. There Sigurður worked for Lake of the Woods Milling Co.