ID: 3557
Date of birth : 1861
Place of birth : Borgarfjarðarsýsla
Sveinbjörn Loftsson was born in 1861 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla.
Spouse: 1883 Steinunn Ásmundsdóttir b. 1861 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla.
Children: 1. Sigríður b. 1884 2. Ásmundur b. 1886 3. Guðlaug 4. Barbara Ólafía 5. Vilmundur 6. Herdís 7. Hugborg 8. Kristín 9. Jakobína 10. Guðrún 11. Margrét Sigurmunda. Three other children died young.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887. They soon moved to New Iceland and lived there two years. They moved back to Winnipeg, but in 1891 they moved to the Þingvalla settlement in Saskatchewan where they took their land and bought two other lots. Sveinbjörn bought a store in Churchbridge in 1904 and ran it in addition to farming until 1908, but then he stopped farming and concentrated on the store.