ID: 7037
Date of birth : 1882
Date of death : 1946
Steinunn Gísladóttir was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla on April 3, 1882. She died on July 31, 1946.
Spouse: Kristján Jakob Jónasson b. in the Hnausa settlement on September 3, 1883, d. in the Víðir settlement on May 29, 1959
Children: 1. Kristjana Jakobína b. 1914 2. Helga b. 1916 3. Hildur 4. Sigurbjörg, twins, b. 1918 5. Jónas Sigurbjörn Hilberg b. 1920.
Steinunn was the daughter of Gísli Árnason and Dýrunn Steinsdóttir, early settlers in New Iceland. She moved with them and her brother, Árni, to Manitoba in 1883. Kristján was taken in as a foster child by Eiríkur Sigurðsson and Ingunn Bjarnadóttir who settled in Mikley. He and Steinunn took land in the Víðir-Sandhill settlement.