Sigurjóna Albertsdóttir

ID: 18978
Born west
Date of birth : 1891
Date of death : 1994

Sigurjóna Albertsdóttir was born in the Hnausa Settlement in New Iceland on August 17, 1891. She died in Manitoba in 1994.

Spouse: August 22, 1910 Jón Þórðarson b. in Álftartungu in Mýrasýsla on September 21, 1888, d. February 8, 1972.

Children: Sesselja Sigurrós b. November 17, 1910. 2. Clara Ingibjörg b. November 8, 1912 3. Guðrún Sigríður b. May 21, 1915 4. Albert Kristján b. February 22, 1918, d. October 11, 1995 5. Þorsteinn (Stoney) b. February 17, 1920, d. March 8, 1975 6. Jónína Lillian (Loa) b. May 13, 1922, d. July 21, 1975 7. Helgi b. July 7, 1927, d. 1980. 8. Norman Valdimar b. December 20, 1929.

Sigurjóna was the daughter of Albert Sigursteinsson and his wife Sigurrós Jónsdóttir. Jón was 11 years old when he came west with Jóhann Guðmundsson and his family in 1900. Helgi, Jón’s brother, came from Fornahvammur in the same group; he was born in 1880.