ID: 3198
Date of birth : 1844
Place of birth : Mýrasýsla
Date of death : 1921
Þorgerður Jónsdóttir was born on October 23, 1844 in Mýrasýsla. She died on March 1, 1921 in New Iceland.
Spouse: 1873 Sveinn Árnason b. August 1, 1849 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla, d. July 24, 1923 in Manitoba.
Children: 1. Ingibjörg b. 1874 2. Jóhannes b. 1875 3. Helga b. 1878 4. Gróa b. 1881.
Þorgerður came west in 1900 with her son Jóhannes. They moved quickly to Eyjólfsstaðir in the Hnausa Settlement where Þorgerður and Sveinn’s daughter Ingibjörg lived. Sveinn came west a year later. They settled in the Hnausa Settlement and lived there until 1919. They then moved to a little plot of land on Winnipeg Beach, near their youngest daughter Gróa.