Steindór Árnason

ID: 13383
Date of birth : 1872
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Date of death : 1949

Steindór Árnason: Born in Árnessýsla on August 21, 1872. He died on November 29, 1949.

Spouse: Ingibjörg Björnsdóttir b. S. Múlasýsla on February 5, 1872, d. March 10, 1935.

Children: 1. Björn b. May 27, 1900 2. Rannveig Ingibjörg b. January 28, 1901 3. Rannveig b. 1904 in USA 4. Sigríður b.1905 in Manitoba 5. Þórir (Thorir) b. 1907 in New Iceland 6. Ingiríður b. 1910 in New Iceland.

They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1903 and bought land in the Víðir-Sandy Hills Settlement in 1906. They did not live there long before buying the land of Björn Hermannsson in the same settlement.