ID: 8574
Date of birth : 1885
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Þorgerður Benediktsdóttir was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1885.
Spouse: Eiríkur Davíðsson b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1878.
Children: They had 3 sons and 2 daughters.
Þorgerður came west in 1905 with her parents, Benedikt Jóelsson and Albína Þorsteinsdóttir. Eiríkur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his brother Jóhannes in 1900. He worked as a fisherman on Lake Manitoba the first years, but moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905. He took land near Leslie.