ID: 19408
Born west
Place of birth : N. Dakota
Sigurjón Jónsson was born in N. Dakota. He had the last name Víum or Wium in the west.
Spouse: 1909 Björg Sigurðardóttir b. 1890 in N. Múlasýsla.
Children: 1. Elmer Raymond 2. Baldur 3. Kart 4. Marino 5. Lily 6. Gunnar d. in France in 1944 7. Þór (Thor) d. 1977.
Sigurjón was the son of Jón Björnsson and Guðrún Jónsdóttir in N. Múlasýsla who came west in 1876. He was born in N. Dakota and grew up there. He took land near Wynyard in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1904 and moved there the same year. Björg came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with her parents, Sigurður Eiríksson and Lilja Guðmundsdóttir, in 1892.