The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1979, Blaðsíða 29

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
WINTER 1979
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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son and Gudlin Gudmundsdottir at Staf-
holtsey in Borgarfjordur. Gudrun had a son,
Haraldur Marius, later a merchant at Win-
nipeg Beach, bom in Mikley on Nov. 2,
1877. The father is registered as Gudmun-
dur Danielsson, then deceased. Gudmundur
and Gudrun lived in Mikley for about two
years, moving east across Lake Winnipeg to
Sand River about 1879. After one year
there, they moved to Winnipeg for three
years, then to the Gimli area where they
lived at Somastadir until c 1891. From
Gimli they moved to Selkirk where Gud-
mundur died July 5, 1912. They had five
children of which three lived: Ingibjorg
married Wm. Thompson, merchant at Win-
nipeg Beach; Haraldur, merchant at Winni-
peg Beach; and Jon in Selkirk. The brothers
went by the name Anderson.
(H 8 Aug. 1912, Bf Ill. 192; et al.)
26. Jon Sigurdsson — Bakki: from
Saurbaer in Dalasysla, born in 1831, son of
Sigurdur Gudbrandsson and Gudlaug
Ormsdottir. Jon emigrated from Krossar-
bakkin in Bitra, Standasysla in 1876 with
his wife, Hallbera Hjaltadottir from Stein-
grimsfjordur, born c 1833, and one son,
Sigurdur. They lived in Mikley for three
years, moving to Pembina Co., N.D. in
1880 where they lived near Mountain. Jon
died there in 1882. Hallbera spent the re-
mainder of her life at the home of her son,
Sigurdur Reykfjord Jonsson. She died at
Mountain on Feb. 3, 1896.
(L 26. March, 1896; Dalm III, 375; et al.)
27. Helgi Sigurdur Tomasson — Rey-
nistadur: from Hermundarfellsselin
N-Thingeyjarsysla, bom 1847, the son of
Tomas Jonsson. Helgi emigrated in 1876,
then newly married to Margret Thorarins-
dottir, from Vesturaland in Axarfjordur,
born in 1841. Their daughter, Kristin, was
then three years old. Helgi and Margret
were amongst the first settlers to land in
Mikley, spending the first winter at Helga-
vatn. In 1877 they were registered at Bakki
and at the end of 1878 they lived at Reyni-
stadur. Over the next years they are said to
have made their home at Sandar, Steinnes
and Skogar. On April 18, 1883 they moved
to Reynistadur which became their per-
manent home. Thorleifur Jackson states that
Margret named Reynistadur after a bough of
mountain ash which she found there. Helgi
and Margret had four children, Kristin, mar-
ried Vilhjalmur Sigurgeirsson; Rosa;
Kristjan, merchant and postmaster at Reyni-
stadur; and Gunnar at Reynistadur.
(ThJ II, 130; et al.)
28. Fridbjorn Stefansson — Birki-
land: from Eyjafjordur, born c 1833. Frid-
bjorn emigrated from Bakkagerdi in Eastern
Iceland in 1876 with his wife, Gudny Da-
nielsdottir, born c 1825. They settled at
Birkiland in Mikley before the end of 1877.
Gudny must have died a few years after their
arrival in Canada and Fridbjorn married
Gudrun Kristjansdottir from Dunkur in
Dalasysla, born in 1829, a sister to Tomas
Kristjansson at Hvammur (nr. 15). Frid-
bjorn died in Winnipeg on May 4, 1893.
Gudrun, his second wife, was living at the
West Coast in 1912. Fridbjorn’s son, Stefan
Fridbjornsson, lived in Mikley for several
years, moving from there to Winnipeg and
then the West Coast.
(L 6. May, 1892; ThJ II, 126, etal.)
(To be continued in the next issue)
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AGRICULTURAL SURVEY
persons in home house cellar well cleared land cultivated fence ditches JS roads L [potatoes 1 13 -c «/) 3 wheat (bushels) oats (bushels) barley (bushels) flat beans (bushels) round beans (bushels) com (bushels) root crops livestock boats nets fish lines whitefish other fish
NAMES OF SETTLERS NAMES OF FARMS length width height length width depth depth acres acres fathoms fathoms 40 kg. units length 1 width c 1 <u sown yield sown yield sown yield sown yield sown yield sown yield yield cows oxen & bulls calves chickens number capacity fathoms hooks number number
16. Halldor Thorgilsson Kirkjubol 9 22 14 10 14 12 5 47 37, 250 30 150 9 J20 7. 4 2 1 100 1 8 60 — 500 5000
17. Jon Jonsson Laekjarskogur 5 40 30 350
18. Halldor Halldorsson Kirkjubol 5 — 50 _ 40 — 20 200
19. Stefan Jonsson Furubrekka 3 12 12 7 — — — — 17 1 120 — . _ _ _ _ — — 1 — 1 20 1 8 30 — 210 600
20. Tryggvi Ingimundsson Laufstadur 7 13 11 7 9 6 5 — 2 17, 300 — 75 — — 5 . 35 _ _ 7, ■ 3 1 1 20 1 8 50 — 400 1900
21. Petur Bjamason Sandnes 3 - 1 7, 100 40 — 5 . 40 _ _ _ _ _ 7, 4 1 — — 30 — 240 1480
22. Pall Bjamason Sandnes 7 16 12 9 8 5 5 — 1 1 — 20 90 — 5'/j . , 70 _ _ _ _ _ 5 1 2 25 _ — 45 — 360 507
23. Bjami Petursson Thingvollur) 3 16 12 8 10 6 4 — 1 1 100 12 75 — — 6 64 — — 2 1 1 25 1 10 40 — 190 820
24. Benjamin Einarsson Helgavatn 4 14 11 8 9 6 5 — 27: 17, 150 12 60 — — 7 , 100 7, — — — — 4 1 — 1 30 1 10 60 — 180 600
25. Gudmundur Amason Harastadir 3 15 12 8 10 8 6 — 2 1 200 — 40 — — 6 40 — — — — — 3 1 — — — — — 30 — 450 400
Totals (1 -25) 112 16 10 5 39 30 2910 160 2005 114_ J302 5 88 27 — 27 610 14 125 259 — 6100