Þorbjörg Lárusdóttir

ID: 11278
Date of birth : 1879
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1959

Þorbjörg Lárusdóttir Photo: RbQ

Þorbjörg Lárusdóttir was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1879. She died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan on November 11, 1959.

Spouse: Vilhjálmur Ólafsson b. in N. Dakota in 1882, d. in the Lakes  Settlement (Vatnabyggð) on November 22, 1951. He is registered as Olafson in the west.

Children: 1. Lára 2. Inga 3. Guðrún 4. Ragnheiður 5. Dorothy 6. Sigrún 7. Óli 8. William.

Vilhjálmur grew up in his parent’s home, Ólafur Einarsson and Guðrún Einarsdóttir, in the Fjalla Settlement in N. Dakota.  Þorbjörg, daughter of Lárus Guðmundsson and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir, came west to her parent’s home in Pembina, N. Dakota in 1900. Vilhjálmur took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905.