Valgerður Einarsdóttir

ID: 5046
Date of birth : 1848
Place of birth : Ísafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1932

Valgerður Einarsdóttir was born in 1848 in Ísafjarðarsýsla. She died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan on November 29, 1932.

Spouse: September 22, 1877 Árni Jónsson b. in Strandasýsla on October 25, 1847, d. in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) on May 1, 1930. He was known as A. A. Johnson in the west.

Children: 1. Jóhanna Guðbjörg b. May 5, 1878 3. Guðrún Margrét, twin b. May 5, 1878, drowned on August 16, 1880 4. Þorgerður b. October 11, 1879, d. April 30, 1898 in Brandon 5. Árni Valdimar b. September 6, 1883 6. Steinn b. May 27, 1886, d. February 18, 1920 in the Lakes Settlement. Árni had a son, Jón, b. January 4, 1868 with Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir from Kirkjuból in Staðarsveit.

Árni came west to Canada with his family in 1890. They came to Winnipeg, Manitoba and then settled in Brandon in the spring of 1891. In 1903 they moved west to the Pacific and lived in Ballard, a suburb of Seattle for more than a year. They moved from there to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905 and settled near Mozart. They lived there the rest of their lives.