The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1979, Qupperneq 25

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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appears to be the family that lived with
Halldor Thorgilsson (nr. 16) at Kirkjubol
during the winter of 1878-79. This couple
had lost some children on the journey as a
daughter born in Mikley on Nov. 7, 1878 is
named Sigurlin after the youngest child born
in Iceland. Halldor took over the land first
taken by Jon Jonsson (nr. 17), called Hli-
darhus. Gudrun died in 1880. Halldor lived
in Mikley until his death in August 1910. Of
eleven children, six reached maturity: Elin,
married a Dane in Moose Jaw, Sask.;
Johannes lived at Hlidarhus after his father;
Sigridur, married Bjami Stefansson at
Grund; Gudrun; Thorsteinn, Toronto; and
Sigurlin, married Jon Sigurgeirsson at San-
dar in Mikley.
(ThJ II, 132; L 12. May, 1927; etal.)
19. Stefan Jonsson — Furubrekka:
from Holar in Reykjadalur, Thingeyjar-
sysla, born at Einarsstadir in 1831. the son
of Jon Jonsson and Gudbjorg Markusdottir.
Stefan sold his farm in Iceland in preparing
to emigrate to Brazil but these plans never
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materialized. He and his wife, Bjorg
Kristjansdottir, emigrated from Gardur in
Adalreykjadalur in 1878 with three chil-
dren: Jonina, Sigurlaug and Kjartan. Stefan
is recorded as being at Furubrekka during
the winter of 1878 but is said to have lived at
Bordeyri (vacated by Sigurdur Jonsson in
1879) for the next two years before moving
to Selkirk. After two years at Selkirk he
returned to Mikley and settled at Jonsnes
which had then been vacated by Gudbjorg
Gudbrandsdottir, (nr. 41). Stefan and Bjorg
lived at Jonsnes for many years until the
death of their son, Kjartan. They then
moved to Ingolfsvik where Stefan died in
Feb. 1910. Bjorg died at the home of her
daughter, Helga Davidsson in Winnipeg in
1923, aged 93. Their daughter Sigurlaug
married Lyman Edminster, Grand Forks.
Jonina married a man named McDonald in
Duluth. Kjartan married Vilhelmina,
daughter of the Rev. Oddur Gislason.
(ThJ II, 133-134; L 10. March, 1910; L 16.
Aug. 1923; et al .)
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