ID: 12872
Date of birth : 1864
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1931
Þorbjörg Guttormsdóttir was born in 1864 in N. Múlasýsla. She died in 1931 in California.
Spouse: 1902 Erlendur Jónsson b. August 15, 1865 at Vatnsleysuströnd in Gullbringusýsla. He took the last name Johnson in the west.
Children: 1. Guðný Elízabet. Þorbjörg had a daughter with her first husband, her name was Anna Tilly.
Þorbjörg came west in 1883 with her parents, Guttormur Sigurðsson and Ólöf Sölvadóttir, pioneers near Hallson, N. Dakota. Erlendur came west in 1892 to Winnipeg and worked there for some time. He then packed up and traveled around Canada and the United States, e.g. North Dakota. He made his way in 1897 to the Piney Valley settlement. He lived there for some years, then they moved from there to California.