Steinunn Þórarinsdóttir

ID: 14166
Date of birth : 1860
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1929

Steinunn Þórarinsdóttir was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1860. She died on November 12, 1929 in Manitoba.

Spouse: Andrés Jónsson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla on March 27, 1855, d. in Manitoba on July 21, 1938. He took the last name Skagfeld in the west.

Children: 1. Kristín b. December 19, 1885, d. March 16, 1930 2. Sigurbjörn (Steini) b. January 24, 1888 3. Stefanía 4. Valgerður 5. Stanley 6. Alexander 7. Jóhanna 8. Emily 9. Clara 10. Dóra. Steinunn had Þórarinn Sigbjörnsson b. 1881, d. 1904, with her first husband, Sigbjörn Eyjólfsson. Andrés had Guðrún in 1880 with his first wife.

Steinunn moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba from Iceland in 1882. Andrés came west in 1883.  Andrés first lived in New Iceland and then he moved to Selkirk and after some time, moved to Gimli where he transported fish. He took land in the Lundar settlement in 1904 but in later years he lived in Oak Point.