Sigurlaug Þorsteinsdóttir Mynd Almanak 1944
Sigurlaug Þorsteinsdóttir was born in 1867 in Eyjafjarðar- sýsla.
Spouse: June 22, 1886 Jóhannes Einarsson b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1864.
Children: 1. Elína b. March 11, 1889 2. Jón b. December 4, 1890 3. Sigursteinn b. October 8, 1892 4. Jóhannes b. August 5, 1895 5. Vilhjálmur b. December 24, 1897 6. Ingólfur b. April 8, 1901 7. Einar b. October 10, 1902 8. Sveinn b. August 21, 1904 9. Sæmundur b. September 2, 1905 10. Sigurlaug Margrét b. February 3, 1907 11. Franklín b. October 10, 1910. Coming west with them were: a) Bjarni M. Loftsson b. 1874 b) Svanhildur Jóelsdóttir b. 1882. In Grýtubakkahreppur, they were listed as needy children.
They came west by sea in 1889 to Winnipeg, Manitoba. A year later, they moved west to Saskatchewan and were among the first settlers in the Lögberg settlement.