ID: 3834
Date of birth : 1816
Place of birth : Snæfellsnessýsla
Date of death : 1893
Þórarinn Árnason was born in 1816 in Snæfellsnessýsla. He died in N. Dakota in 1893.
Spouse: Gróa Jónsdóttir b. June 27, 1823, d. December 4, 1903.
Children: 1. Árni b. 1847 2. Sólrún b. 1849 3. Sigurður b. 1852 4. Þórarinn b. 1855 5. Magnús b. 1857 6. Kári b. 1860.
Þórarinn and his son Magnús came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883. Traveling with them was Magnús’ fiancée, Elísabet Daníelsdóttir. Árni, Þórarinn’s eldest son, had come west a year earlier. Gróa and Kári came west in 1885, while Sigurður came with his family in 1889. Þórarinn took land in the Sand Hill settlement in N. Dakota and lived there.