ID: 5085
Date of birth : 1848
Place of birth : Strandasýsla
Date of death : 1943
Þóra Guðmundsdóttir was born in Strandasýsla in 1848. She died in Kandahar in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) on August 22, 1943.
Spouse: Björn Jósefsson b. August 14, 1842 in Barðastrandarsýsla, d. in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905.
Children: 1. Herdís Ketilríður b. 1869 2. Nýmundur Sakarías b. 1870 3. Sigríður Guðrún b. 1873 4. Jóhanna b. 1875 5. Bjarni, remained in Iceland, the others went to America. Born in N. America 6. Benedikt 7. Guðmundur 8. Þórður 9. Ólafur 10. Magnea.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883 and went from there to N. Dakota. They moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905 and took land in the Kandahar/Dafoe area.