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			'description' => '<p>This document contains a brief review of the family's history in Iceland and the first generations in Canada.</p>',
			'text' => 'In the photo above the daughters of Johann and Sigurborg Gottfred l-r back row Thora Hansina front row Thorbjorg Palina Sigrun and Lena. Johann and Sigurborg Gottfred Jonas Peturssons farms included Fagranes which can be found just south orfthe reference to Gren-jadurstadur near the bottom of the map Holtakot is straight south of Husavik follow the most east-erly shown road. Map Geodetic Institute Copenhagen 19111914 Petur Thorvaldsson Asmunddur Bjarnarson from Valdi at Skjalfandafdottir from Dagargerdi born before 1770 born died after 1803 died 10 Jan 1790 married married Karitas Jonsdottir Sigridur Pallsdottir from from Heykallsgerdi born before 1770 born died after 1803 died 9 Feb parents of parents of Jonas Erikur Palsson from from Heykallst born Tungu born 1785 died died married married Oudny Bjarnadottir 2nd wife from from Akra born born died died 10/2/ parents of parents of Jonas Petursson Pall Asmundsson from Krassavik in Thistilfirdi from Dagargerdi in Nordur Mullusysla born 29 December 1796 born 10 Feb 1882 died 21 January 1866 died 16 July 1866 married married Sigridur Jonasdattir Einarsson Thora Eriksdottir from Krassauik from Heykallsstodum born 30 July 1830 at Sandi born 25 Dec 1824 died died 24 July 1889 parents of parents of Johann Gottfred ---- married in 1884 ---- Sigurborg Sarah Pallsdottir 1854 - 1898 imm. 1876 1857 - 1936 imm. 1876 1 Thora Karolina Gottfred married 1920 Jack Watts b. 13 February1885 - d. 21 December 1921 2 Sigurdur Gottfred b.1886 - d. 1886 3 Palina Kristine Gottfred married 22 November 1907 Sigurdur Magnusson b. 06 September 1888 - d. 22 February 1971 4 Eyjolfina Signy Lena Gottfred married Gudni Thorleifson b.21 November 1890 - d. 20 October 1995 5 Thorbjorg Begga Gottfred married Halldor Johann Magnusson b. 31 May 1893 - d. 18 June 1918 6 Sigrun Runa Gottfred married Oddur Oddson b. 20 January 1895 - 17 October 1987 7 Hansina Sena Gottfred married Sigurdur Anderson b. 24 January1897 - d. 28 November 1995 Jonas Petursson Father of Johann Gottfred from Krassavik in Thistilfirdi born Dec. 29 1796 died Jan 21 1866 Except for information in brackets the following on Jonas was translat-ed from Icelandic by Thora Gunnlaugsson. Jonas Petursson a finishing carpenter was born at Holtakot in Rey-kjahverfi in Sudur Pingeirasyslu on the 29th of December 1796. His par-ents were Petur Thorvaldsson and his wife Karitas Jonsdottir who had pre-viously resided at Holtakot but more recently at Fagranes in Adaldal and prior to living at Holtakot at Vadi at Skalfandaflott. From Holtakot they moved out on to Mana at Tjornesi and resided there for seven years - from 1796 to 1803. After that it is uncertain as to their whereabouts. Their children were raised at Husavikurhreppi but up until that time little is known about Jonas except that he was confirmed in 1810 at the age of fourteen. Little is known of his life before he ventures north to Thistilsfirdi at Knutsstodum in Adaldal in the spring of 1835. There he was married to Bjorg Grimnsdottir. Grimmur was surnamed Joakimsson. At Knutsstodum Jonas and Bjorg resided together for one year and then separated once and for all. Their children were born between 1831 and 1837. Later Bjorg married Gudni Sigurdsson an ironsmith and the farmer called Kristjan at Breidmyri was their son. What befell Jonas after he left the home is known to no one until the year 1856 when he moves from the north at Ranjarhofn and commences to reside at Sydri-Tungu. He is then married and has been for some time to Sigridur Jonsdottir Einarsson she had been born at Sandi July 30 1830 thus he must have been about fifty-five and she only 20 years of age. These are Jonas and Bjorg's children 1 Grimmur born at Thistilfirdi about 1831. 2 Karolina Ragnheidur born about 1833. 3 Elin S. born in June 1834. 4 Sigurdur born at Knuttsstodum on Dec. 3 1835 who later ventured to the eastern part of Iceland where he drowned. 5 Steingrimur born at Tungu March 4 1837 and died March 17 1837. The following are the children of Jonas and Sigridur 6 Hans Sigurjon Jonsson born about March 7 1850. It is known that he was at Tunguheidi in March 30 1869 where he was employed as a hired hand on Raufarhfn. He emigrated to Canada where he homesteaded near Thori Goodman's farm between Baldur and Glenboro Manitoba. In 1938 he gave 100 to Audry Johanna Oddson Snowdon because she had the same name as his brother. When he died in 1940 he left 2000 dollars which at that time could have bought two new cars to his four nieces in-cluding Lena Runa and Pauline Sena. He wanted to send money to his nieces in Iceland but the government would not let him. He left money to pay for the bells in the Glenboro Lutheran Church. He was a warm-hearted bachelor and was shy sincere and a bit of a loner. 7 Sigridur Karolina born about 1853. She was a career mid-wife in Iceland and at Sinclair MB and she usually did not charge for this service. She was out-going stately impressive and for-ward. She married Johann Johanns-son. They danced well and made a smart couple. They farmed and she died north of Reston in about 1960 at age 107. Ka-rolina is seen in the picture at the right in 1943 with her son Gottfred and daughter Veiga. 8 Johann Gottfred born and here is a contradic-tion of his birth date as it here states August 25 but the year is in accord 1854. He was the first of the siblings to emigrate to North America. See be-low. 9 Kristin Fridrikka born about March 5 1856. 10 Jonina Thorgjorg born at Tungu March 31 1858 and died May 31 1866. II.Jonas Friman born October 6 1859 and died January 1861. 12 Jonina Thorbjorg born October 2 1861. She married Daniel Illugasyni a farmer at Blikajoni on Melrakkaslettu.. Sigridur Jonasdottir Einarsson Johann Gottfreds mother from Krossavik born June 36 1830 at Sandi died Sigridur was married to Jonas in 1850 at age 20 and had six children be-ginning when she was 21 and finishing off when she was 31. Three of her children emigrated beginning in 1876 when she was 46. Pall Asmundsson Sigurbjorg Pallsdottirs father from Dagvertagundi Nordur MolIusysla born 10 Feb 1822 died 16 July 1866 probably in Hroarstungu Pall raised sheep and lived close enough to the ocean to fish. His daugh-ter Gudbjorg spoke well of him. Pall died in Iceland on July 16 1866 at the age of 44 when the youngest of his five daughters was still a baby. Ten years later his widow children and son-in-law emigrated to Canada. Thora Eriksdottir from Heykallsstodum born 25 Dec 1824 died 24 July 1889 In 1876 ten years after the death of her husband Thora emigrated to Canada with her five daughters and a son-in-law Eyjolfur Eyjolfon Olson.The family moved to Winnipeg in 1878. Signy Pallsdottir was the oldest of Thora Eriksdottirs three surviving daughters and was born in about 1852 immigrated at about age 24 and died in Winnipeg in 1913 at age 61. She had married Eyjolfur who died in about 1903 when they were still in Iceland. He had a butcher shop and later a laundry. They had six children but only three grew to adulthood. Signy's oldest son was Pall Olson who married Solveig Bardarson and had three sons before his death in 1904. 1 Hilliard Olson who married Etta. And had no children. 2 Asmunder Olson who married Runa and may have had one son. 3 Pall Olson who married Hilda and had no children. These three sons all moved to Seattle and Blaine Washington where they were joined by their mother Solveig. Signy's second son Asmundur Jack Olson married Margaret Johnson in 1902 and had six children. 1 Ruby who married Sveinn Magnusson and had two children June and Barrie who both married. 2 Norman Olson who married and adopted a daughter named Bever-ly. 3 Paul Olson who married and had one son. 4 Valentine who married Harry Lynch and had two children Marga-ret and Norman. 5 Pearl who married Bob Kirk and had no children. 6 Beatrice who married Jack Thomas and had a son John who died in Germany and a daughter named Darlene. Signy was a dressmaker and was the best of the daughters at reading and writing. Since she was oldest she got the most exposure to teaching. In Iceland a minister would usually come and teach. She died in Winnipeg at about age 61 in 1913. Thora's next youngest daughter was Gudbjorg born in about 1854. Thora and Gudbjorg took in washing and Gudbjorg helped her sister Signy with the boarding house at Notre Dame and Spence where she lived. Although she never tried much writing she could do it well enough to send letters to her niece Lena in Winnipeg Lena later married Gudni Thorleifson. Gudbjorg married a man named Eyjolfur at age 65 and died about three years later in 1921. Gudbjorg was described by Lena as a darling who sacrificed her life for her family. Sigurborg was the youngest of the daughters who would survive into adulthood. She was born on Janu-ary 1 1857 and married Johann Gottfred see more below Gudrun was born about 1865 and Sigridur born two years later. They both died in a small pox epidem-ic in New Iceland near Gimli in 1878. Thora Pallsdottirs granddaughter Lena who was born a year after she died heard that her grandmother ran the household - a good organizer and a capable wom-an. She was a good manager - not bad tempered or dominating - but her chil-dren and son-in-laws had to submit to her. This was unusual since in Ice-land the man was usually the headof the home. Thora Eriksdottir died in Winnipeg on July 24 1889 at the age of 65. Johann Gottfred born January 30 1854 at Krossavik in Iceland died July 22 1898 at Reston Manitoba Johann Gottfred was born at Krossavik in the north eastern part of Iceland when his mother Sigridur was 24 years old and his father was 59. His father was a finishing carpenter who moved several times. There is however a family farm at Blikolon which is still in the family and now supports several families. Johann as a young man worked with the sheep and fished. He worked for a Danish fish-ing concern based in Reykjavik and became known as Johann yow Gottfred or Johann who works for Gottfred. At age 22 in 1876 he emigrated to Win-nipeg. Here he found so many Johanssons in the community that he decided to take the name Gottfred. This must be his spelling since the Danish was more than likely Gotfrey. He and his sister Karolina had come from Ice-Blikalon one of the farms associated with Johann Gottfreds family is on the extreme north coast of Melrakkasletta along the bay named Sigurdarstadavik. Map Geodetic Institute Copenhagen 19111914 land on the same trip but did not get to know each other until they were in Winnipeg where Johann worked as a labourer digging ditches and doing carpentry. He was hard working and well liked in Winnipeg. In 1884 at age 30 he married Sigurbjorg Pallsdottir and they rented a small home on the corner of Notre Dame and Young. Their first child born a year later was named Thora. In 1888 after the birth of their third child they moved to the R.M. of Ar-gyle where they squatted on the point of land on the lake across from Grund Church four and half miles north of Baldur. They kept a few cattle and lived a rather meagre existence. Their fourth child Lena was born there in 1890 and they hired Sigurborg Peterson later Reykdal for a while to help out in the house. In 1892 at Sigurbjorgs insistence they made a sudden move out of Argyle and homesteaded some land in Reston. There Thorbiorg Sigrun and Hansena were born between 1892 and 1897. At their new home Johann had a horse and buggy and to pull the plow he like most farmers of the day kept oxen one of whom was named Dick. They had not been able to settle close to other Icelanders but their neighbours would come to help with cutting and threshing and Johann in turn would help them with their work. They farmed by Reston until 1898. Johann contracted a cold in April of that year and lingered in illness until he died of pneumonia in July of 1898 at age 44. Johann was always good tempered and good natured and his wife thought the world of him. Sigurborg Sarah Pallsdottir Palson born January 31 1857 at Dagverdagerdi Iceland died November 20 1936 at Baldur Manitoba Sigurborg spent her childhood in Iceland in her home with her mother and father. Unlike her older sisters she never learned to write not even to sign her name and would instead use a cross as her mark. She did however learn to read. She was very good natured and would always keep busy both as a child and an adult. She immigrated with her mother and family in 1876 at age 19 and chose to go by the name of Sarah Palson. After marrying Johann Gottfred at age 27 she con-tinued to help them earn a living by taking in washing for various people around the neighbourhood. After Johann died when she was 41 a family named Abrahamson let her move her shanty to their farm about 12 miles away where she was now close to Icelandic people. She supported herself by renting out her and Johann's farm at a small yearly rent and by spinning knitting and keeping a few cat-tle to make and sell butter. In 1914 at age 57 she moved to her brother-in-law Eyjolfur's home at Notre Dame and Spence in Winnipeg. His wife Signy had died the previous year. Later she had a small house built for her on the west side of Langruth near her daughter Lena's home. She continued to support herself doing wool work carding knitting and making comforters. In 1927 Sigurborg qualified for a 10 a month old age pension but for four years she was too proud to accept it. She still owned her farm near Reston but for four years during the depression she did not earn any money from it. Her daughters and sons-in-law would say to her Why bother keeping it and paying taxes on it in that dried out country She finally was unable to pay the taxes and let it go for tax sale. In the photo at right Sigurborg is seen with her daughters Pauline left and Lena right. She died on November 20 1936 at the home of her daughter Hansena in Baldur. She had earlier broken her hip and had spent three months in a cast and after that had to use some kind of a support. The following is and exerpt from her obituary the author of which is un-known. I first met Sigurborg when I was a boy newly arrived from Iceland in the year 1883. That winter I stayed with my parents and my brother in a little house on Young Street in Winnipeg called Eyjolfsstadir or that was the way the house was named in those days. This was the home of Eyjolfur Ol-son and his wife Signy Palsdottir. My relative Rev Jon Bjarnason who at that time was at Seydisfjordur in Iceland had refered me to them because he considered them very helpful. I was not disappointed because in no other Western-Icelandic home did newly arrived Icelanders finds such hospitality and helpfulness.eyjolfsstadir on Young street there were three sisters stay-ing there Signy the mistress of the house Gudbjorg and Sigurborg. Thora Karolina Gottfred Watts born February 13 1885 in Winnipeg died December 20 1921 in Langruth Both as a child and an adult Thora was shy and not very outgoing but was hard working even tempered and got along quite well where she worked. She was healthy and like her parents never belonged to any organizations aside from the church. Her father died when she was 13. She stayed with her mother along with her youngest sisters Sena and Sigrun. Soon after she went and worked as a maid in Reston at the old folks home in Gim-li and other places working wherever she could. Thora later came to Langruth because her sister Lena was there and worked in the hotel. She married Jack Watts who had returned from the Great War in December of 1919 when she was 35. He was able to get a farm north of Langruth probably with assistance from the govern-ment since he was a veteran. They had twin girls in 1920. In 1921 Thora had another baby Caroline and died of septisemia a complication of childbirth. People used to say that the doctor who delivered the baby at their home wasn't clean enough but Thora's family never made any complaints. Thoras sister took the twins and another sister took the baby. Caroline the baby died of smallpox. Jack then sold the farm and moved west to Waskada with the twins 1 Alice Watts married Bill Palmericka. No children. b. 6 August 1920 d. June 1957 2 Lena Thorabjorg Watts married Vincent Coleman Waskada b. 6 August 1920 d. 15 December 1961 1 Patricia Anne Coleman b. 8 March 1955 2 Mildred Isabell Coleman b. 23 February 1957 3 Brenda Lee Coleman b. 19 January 1962 4 Katherine Louise Coleman b. 19 January 1962. Sigurdur Gottfred born 6 Sept 1886 in Winnipeg and died in the same year. Palina Kristine Gottfred Magnusson born September 6 1888 in Winnipeg died 29 November 1967 in Spy Hill Saskatchewan Palina was almost 10 years old when her father died in the summer of 1898. Her uncle Eyjolfur and aunt Signy came to the funeral and took Palina along with her seven year old sister Lena with them to live in Winnipeg. She was less good na-tured than Lena and did not get along as well with the borders at the house. After grade four she quit school and went to work as her teacher's maid. When she was 19 on November 22 1907 she married Sigurdur Mag-nusson and they moved to Spy Hill just across the border in Sas-katchewan. She had four boys 1 Johann Joe Oliver Magnusson married Jean Rutherford b. 24 November 1908 d. September 1975 He took over his father's farm by Spy Hill. 2 Sigurbjorn Johannes Bjossi Magnusson married Lyla Louma. b. 31 August 1912 d. 24 December 1971 1 Delores Elizabeth Lyle Magnusson b. 11May 1941 2 Nyla Magnusson b. 14 August 1950 a teacher in Tan tallan. 3 Paul Magnusson married Esther Yeske farmed at SpyHill. b. 15 October 1915 d. 26 June 1988 1 Herbert Garry Magnusson b. 3 May 1943 2 Sandra Paulette Magnusson b. 11 April 1946 3 Larry Paul Magnusson b. 27 March 1950. 4 Larus Magnusson b. 19 October 1917 d. July 1929. Died suddenly of blood poisoning when he was 14. He was with some friends who were looking at an airplane that was flying over. When Larus said that he couldn't see the plane they all knew that some-thing was wrong. Palina's husband died in 1957 when she was 69 and Paulina died ten years later in No-vember of 1967 of old age. Eyjolfina Signy Lena Gottfred Thorleifson born November 21 1890 died 20 October 1985 Lena was born on a point of land just across the lake from Grund Church north of Baldur. Their parents were poor squatters who raised cattle but had enough to hire Sigurborg Peterson to help with the care of the new baby. This was the maternal grandmother of Thora Johannesson who would later marry Lena's son Allan When she was five her mother Sigurborg was sick so Lena and two of her sisters who lived 12 miles away with friends named Abrahamson Kristjon and their daughter Hanna. That winter Sigfus and Margaret Benidictson came from Winnipeg and also stayed at this home. They were able to teach the three how to read and write Iceland-ic. After her father's death in 1898 the eight-year-old Lena and her sister Palina Lena is on the left in the adja-cent photo Palina on the right went with their uncle Eyjolfur and aunt Signy to live with them at the boarding house they kept at the corner of Notre Dame and Spence in the Icelandic part of Winnipeg. It would be four years before Lena was able to see her mother again. Lena was a good natured and willing child and people liked her. She got along well with the boarders and was Always on the run for everybody. This included going around the neighbourhood to pick up washing with a wag-on or sleigh and later with a bicycle. Lena would also read the Icelandic newspapers to her aunt. The spectre of some of the borders's heavy drinking contributed towards her life-long opposition to the consump-tion of alcohol. When I was in Winnipeg staying at the boarding house I saw so many young men drunk. I grew to hate it. Lena had her grade 10 when she started teach-ing. She went back to Normal School to get her 2nd class permanent teaching certificate in 1916. In 1907 at age 17 the Secretary-Treasurer asked her to open the school at Big Point. She boarded with the family of farmer/merchant Olafur Thorleifson where she met his son Gudni whom she married five years later on November 21 1912 at a double wedding with Gudni's sister Mary. Lena had met Mary in Normal School. Lena and Gudni had three children 1 Allan Olafur Thorleifson born on Dec 17 1919 died May 23 1977 of Multiple Myoloma. Married Thora Sigrun Johanneson on October 12 1947 and had six sons 1 Waverlie Allan Thorleifson b/d. Aug 21-21 1948 2 Allan Oliver Thorleifson b. 6 November 1950. married 30 June 1988 Loretta Sawatsky b. 14 October 1962. 1 Erin Rose b. 8 August 1991 2 David Allan Skye b. 14 September 1993 3Ian Clive Thorleifson b. 21 July 1952. married 21 July 1974Barbara Dalton b. 18 November 1954. 1 Mullein Diana b. 2 November 1978 2 Heather Anastasia b. 4 June 1981 3 Cara Roseanne b. 1 January 1986 . 4 Roderick James Thorleifson b. 25 November 1954. married 22 August 1987 Sue Stanton b. 30 June 1951. 1 Rachael Louise b. 21 March 1991 5 Leonard Harvey Thorleifson b. 6 April 1957 and partner Rose-mary Kowalchuk b. 22 June 1957. 6 Neil Thor Thorleifson b. 19 October 1959 married 21 April 1989 Donna Marie Craik b. 5 June 1964. 1 Paul Johann Craik b. 23 June 1993 2 Olivia Jane Craik b. 23 February 1995 2 Edna Bjorg Thorleifson b. 10 October 1921 married October 5 1946 Lawrence Lovett b. 19 April 1921. Moved to southern California. Worked for power utility 1 Marnie Allison Lovett b. 2 January 1948 married 27 April 1974 Lawson Delmar Jackson b. 1935. 1 Sarah Beth b. 14 August 1975 2 Craig Darwin Lovett b. 12 May 1951 married 9 March 1985 Edna Joanne Chiaverini b. 1 July 1952 1 Zachary Lawrence b. 25 November 1988. 3 Derek Bruce Lovett b. 1 September 1955 married 3 October 1976 Sherry Zamboni 1 Christopher Alexander b. 22 March 1978 married 20 October 1984 Linda Ann Dalton b. 28 November 1956. 2 Jessica Louise Dalton b. 5 May 1977. 4 Roger Warren Lovett b. 6 November 1963 married 23 Sep-tember 1989 Susan Audrey Formica b. 29 November 1960. 1 Anthony McCrae b. 1 June 1992 2 Joseph Bjorn b. 31 July 1995 3 Jacob Thor b. 3 Herbert Lincoln Thorleifson b. 7 September 1923 died 1 December 1988 of cancer. Married 21 March 1948 Violet Bergie Bergson b. 3 July 1928. 1 Sylvia Lillian Thorleifson b. 1 March 1948 married 18 Octo-ber 1969 Dennis Styles b. 12 July 1945. 1 Chad Dennis b. 14 February 1972 2 Corrie Lynn b. 11 August 1977 2 Olafur Lincoln Thorleifson b. 30 September 1949 d. 21 April 1993. 3 Deborah Lynne Thorleifson b. 20 July 1953 married 26 July 1975 Edward Moore 1 Bradley Edward b. 12 March 1980 married 10 May 1986 Calvin Patterson b. 6 October 1947 2 Rebecca Lynn b. 8 June 1974 3 Carly Sandra b. 8 April 1976 Bradley Edward note above 4 Haley Lena Elizabeth 4 March 1985 In 1925 Lena returned to teaching for four years due to a severe shortage of teachers. She hired girls to help with her children. She cared for her children and her ill-tempered mother-in-law Gudbjorg un-til returning to teach off and on in 1940. By the time she retired in the late 1950s she had accumulated 24 years of teaching in Langruth and surrounding rural schools. Lena was active in the Luthern Church and belonged to the Chris-tian Endeavour Society and the Woman's Institute where she was sec-retary for many years. She started the first Sunday School to be held in Langruth with lessons in both Icelandic and English but hymns only in Icelandic. Lena began writing a column titled Hecla in the Langruth Weekly Herald. After that paper folded she was published in the Manitoba Liberal Leader later the Portage Leader. In 1963 her readers saw the end of her 46 years in journalism during which she penned more than 2400 articles. She was honoured by management and Vopni Press representatives for the quality of her work. It had a letter from home flavour that had endeared her to her readers. In 1971 Lena wrote a detailed history of the local Lutheran church and its community. During her life Lena enjoyed good health except for her knees and continuous ulcerated sores from varicose veins which may have been weakened by years of standing up while teaching. She died of old age on 20 October 1985. Thorbjorg Begga Gottfred Magnusson born May 31 1892 near Reston Mantioba died June 18 1918 at Tantallon Saskatchewan After her father's death when she was six years old Begga went to live with some friends named John Abrahamson who lived close by. She later re-joined her mother Sena and Runa at Sinclair Manitoba. She worked for a while in Winnipeg as a maid and lat-er moved to Spy Hill Saskatchewan where her sister Palina lived. In 1914 she married Halldor Johann Dori Magnusson Palina's broth-er-in-law. They farmed nearby Tantallon and had two sons 1 Eyjolfur Freeman Magnusson b. 24 September 1914 d. 26 June 1974. Married 30 September 1938 Irene Brown b. 26 April 1918. 1 Carlyle Dori Magnusson b. 30 Sept 1939. 2 David Allan Magnusson b. 19 May 1942 3 Florence Anita Magnusson b. 2 June 1946 4 Ronald James Magnusson b. 9 June 1951 5 Cecil Freeman Magnusson b. 4 October 1952 d. 26 April 1973. 2 Vilmar Johann Magnusson b. 31 May 1916. married 22 August 1937 Hilda Walton b. 15 July 1916. 1 Halldor Wayne Magnusson b. 29 November 1937 2 Sharon Dawn Magnusson b. 12 November 1941 3 Marjorie Kaye Magnusson b. 27 July 1946 In 1918 Begga died from cancer of the colon at age 24. Before get-ting cancer she had never had any significant illness. Sigrun Runa Franka Gottfred Oddson born 20 January 1895 near Reston Manitoba died 17 October 1987 at Portage La Prairie Sigrun Runa pron roo-na was three years old when her father died in 1898. She was adopted by Jon and Gudrun Halldorson who lived at Sinclair where she was able to attend school. When her mother Sigurborg moved to Langruth in 1913 Runa and her infant son Gordon son of Hjalmar Halldorson came to live with her. She found work as a maid for various couples and was staying at her sister Thora's when she died in l918. Runa was working in Tantallon when she met a bachelor named Oddur Oddson who was the local ho-tel owner. They were married in January 1919 when she was 24 and he was 44. Gordon who had been with his grandmother came to live with them and Oddur always treated him as if he were his own child. Gordon tried to enlist in the army in 1940 but was refused because he had flat feet. He later moved to Hamilton Ontario where he married Margaret who died in 1989 and adopted three children. In 1919 Oddur sold his hotel and moved to Langruth where he worked at the local butcher shop and later for the railroad. In 1923 they had a second child named Audrey who mar-ried Stuart Snowdon and moved to Killarney Manitoba. 1 Gordon Oddson b. 30 May 1913 married 30 May 1932 Margaret McWilliams b. 1910. 1 Allan 2 David b. 23 July 1951 3 Daniel 2 Audrey Johanna Oddson b. 14 April 1923 d. 18 May 1988. married 10 September 1946 Stuart Ross Snowden b. 22 June 1922. 1 Lloyd Ross b. 27 June 1947 2 Susan Rae b. 3 September 1950 d. 26 November 1951. 3 Reginald Gordon b. 14 September 1952. 4 Patricia Dawn b. 17 September 1954 5 Sigrun Lillian b. 19 April 1958 6 Frances Joan b. 7 November 1959 Oddur died on October 10 1958 and Runa died of cancer on 17 October 1987 at the age of 92. Hansina Sena Gottfred Anderson born 4 January 1897 at Reston Manitoba died 28 November 1995 in Baldur Manitoba Sena was a baby when her father died and she along with her oldest sister Thora stayed with her mother. She had an ordi-nary childhood and attended school to about grade four before she went out to work as a maid at age 13. At age 15 she came to Winnipeg where she stayed with her sister Lena and her uncle Eyjol-fur and Aunt Signey. She worked as a maid for Dr. and Mrs. Brandson. In 1916 at age 19 she moved to Baldur where she worked for the Andersons. In 1921 she married their son Sigurdur Sigi in ad-jacent photo and lived on a farm where Andres the first of their children was born. 1 Andres Harlas Anderson b. 13 March 1922. Married Ruth Gerol-amy. 1 Perry Dean Anderson b. 14 May 1949 2 Florence Margaret Anderson b. 24 October 1929 d. 27 March 1996 married Jack Oswald Parsonage. 1 Gregory John Parsonage b. 15 February 1949 d. 4 Septem-ber 1985. 2 Douglas Anderson Parsonage b. 9 November 1950 3 Terry Phillip Parsonage b. 21 April 1952 4 Robert Brian Parsonage b. 18 June 1954 5 Donald James Parsonage b. 5 December 1960 6 Eleanor Margaret Parsonage b. 4 October 1962 7 Anne Katherine Parsonage b. 7 April 1964 3 Sigrun Lillian Anderson b. 24 October 1929. married Alan Kelley. 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ThorfinnurJohannesson and Karolina Andresdottir Andersson Johannes Gunnlaugsson Andres Johannesson Aug 21 1829 - 1876 46 Oct 10 1844 Jan 281910 66 imm. 1888 married Sept 11 1860 married Oct 13 1868 at Skinnastadur Valgerdur Finnbogadottir Valgerdur Bjornsdottir Feb9 1829 - 1897 68 imm. 1886 Aug 11 1835 Mar 10 1910 75 imm 1888 Their son Their daughter Thorfinnur Johannesson -- married on Dec 9 1890--- Karolina Ranveig Andresdottir Feb 8 1863 Jun 6 1944 81 im 1886 May 12 1869 Jan 25 1961 91 im 1888 their children Johannes Joe May 2 1891 Dec 20 1967 - age 91 Andrea Valgerdur April 27 1892 July7 1973 - age 81 Ingolfur Ingi Dec. 20 1893 August 3 1963 - age 69 Pall Jan 13 1896 killed in action May 5 1917 - age 21 Kristros Rose Helga Aug 11 1897 Sept 15 1988 - age 91 Olafur born and died of pneumonia in 1899 Oli August Aug 9 1901 June 8 1952 - age 50 Fjola Thorlin June 18 1903 Jan 1 1943 - age 39 Valgerdur Val April 27 1905 1988 - age 83 Jonina Marta Joni May 13 1907 May 1981 - age 73 Finnbogi BogiBob March 11 1909 Bryndor Dori April 191911 Jan 9 1967 - age 55 Gudny born and died of pneumonia in 1913 Gunnlaugur Bjarnarson Johannes Jonsson Born Feb 24 1799 in lower Breiddalu Born 1818 at Bruar in Grenjadarstadur. Died Jul 9 1870 71 at Flaga Died May 1865 45 married May 25 1830 at Heydalir married June 31 1844 at Husavik. Helga Thorvardardottir Olof Andresdottir Born Jan 14 1809 at Njardvik. Born 1814 at Marskot in Reykjadalur Died Jul 10 1867 58 at Flaga Died July 3 1885 71 Their son Their son Finnbogi Isleifsson Bjorn Josefsson Born Jn 30 1796 at Hallberuhus Born May 7 1806 in Gardur DiedJn 15 1868 72 at Thovaldsstadir Died Ag 2 1843 37 at Meidaveillir. married Nov 10 1823 at Geirulfsstadir married Oct 5 1829 at Gardur Thorbjorg Marteinsdottir Helga Josafatsdottir Born 1798 at Berufjordur Born Sept 7 1800 at Brjamsnes Died Ag 29 1878 79 Died Mr 1 1870 70 at As in Kelduhverfi their daughter their daughter The lower map a detail of the upper shows the upper reaches of Breiddalur showing the sites of the following farms Flaga Jorvik Hoskuldsstadir and Disastadir. Heydalur is visible in the upper map near the sea. Map Geodetic Institute Copenhagen 19111914 Prestkvammi where Karolina was born is according to family tradition a farm in the Akureyri district in Northern Iceland. Map Geodetic Institute Copenhagen 19111914 Gunnlaugur Bjarnarson Thorfinnurs paternal grandfather and his wife Helga Thorvardardottir had 13 children including Kristine born 1843 the mother of the Martins who lived near Sandy Bay MB and Brynjolfur Gunnlaugson born 1847 who emigrated to Canada in 1878 at the age of thirty-one. He is the father of the Gunnlaugsons who lived near Baldur Manitoba. More on them can be found in the R.M. of Argyle history. Johannes Gunnlaugsson Thorfunnurs father. Karolinas father-in-law. Born Aug 21 1829 in Brieddalur. Died 1876 age 46 in Iceland. He was christened at Heydalir Church when his father was working at Jorvik. His mother had been living at Hoskuldsstadir East Hills with her par-ents. When he was two his parents moved to nearby Disastadir in the district of Breiddalur Broad Valley in eastern Iceland. The central town would likely have been called Breidal. When he was five they moved to Flaga flat marsh. At the time of his confirmation in 1844 the minister wrote that he is knowl-edgeable and well behaved. He worked on his fathers farm along with his brothers. At age 31 on September 11 1860 Johannes married Valgerdur Finnbogadottir. They farmed and she gave birth to thirteen children only four of whom survived the hardship caused when volcanic ash covered their farm-land. Valgerdur Finnbogadottir Thorfinnurs mother. Karolinas mother-in-law Born Feb 9 1829 Died around 1897 age 68 Valgerdur married Johannes Gunnlaugsson on Spt 11 1860 at age 31. In 1886 at the age of 57 when she had been a widow for ten years she emigrated with her children. They lived for a short while in Winnipeg before moving to Bru north-east of Baldur MB. She died at the home of her brother-in-law Brynjolfur Gunnlaugsson at age 68 11 years after her arrival in Canada. Johannes and Valgerdur had thirteen children. The four who survived to adulthood are 1 Thorfinnur Johannesson. February 8 1863 - June 21 1944. see below 2 Helga Johannesdottir Aug 17 1866 - Apr 24 1944 age 78 at Gimli. She married Bjorn Runolfsson. They had no children but adopted Margret Reykalin. 1 Kristbjorg Helga Johannesdot-tir Jan 28 1868 - 1961 in Bal-dur. Imm. 1892 In 1886 when Kristbjorg was 18 her health was still very poor when her mother and three of her siblings departed for Canada. They left her with her uncle because it would be foolish to pay passage for someone who would likely die en route. Later Kristbjorg told of how she cried bitterly on her uncles shoulder. To pacify her he promised that on her twen-ty-first birthday he would personally grant her the money to go join them never believing she would live to do it. She used to tell of how she inwardly mustered the strength to recover. The money was given and it would have been a lot. Icelanders felt you were only as good as your word so if he had reneged he would have been regarded as un-trustworthy. The minister might have used his failure for a sermon on the bearing of false witness and he would have been shunned by many possibly for years. Kristbjorg went to Manitoba 1892 at age 24 and went on to live to the fi-ne old age of 93. She married Marteinn Martin a 1st cousin. She died in 1961 likely from a heart attack. She and Marteinn had no children. They adopted Flor-ence Reykalin Margarets sister when she was still a small girl. Florence mar-ried Bjarni Barney Thorleifson from Mozart Sask. in 193. Florence had only one pregnancy which ended in miscarriage. Bjarni thought this a punishment of God and he became quite depressed and later was a heavy drinker. Bjarni was not re-lated to other Thorleifsons from Baldur. 4 Jon Jack Johannesson fra Breidal Dec 8 1871 - 1958. Immigrated 1886. After arriving in Winnipeg in 1886 Jon worked in a liv-ery stable for a year . He worked for several farmers in Bru district before purchasing SW8-6-14 five miles north and three miles east of Baldur. In July 1910 he married Gud-bjorg Bardarson and their children were 1 Bertel Valdimar b. 1911 d. 8 October 1993 2 Helgi b. 1914 d. 5 October 1988 3 Valgerdur b. 1917 m. Hallgrimer Erick-son of Lundar 4 Skarphedin Skip b. 1919. In January 1928 he married Kristrun Gud-mundson. In the picture below Kristrun Runa Jon Sigrun Johannesson Marteinn Martin Kristbjorg Jons sister amd Ingi Johannesson Jon and Kristbjorgs nephew. Their children were 5 Kristjan b. 1 Jim Frederickson adopted 6 Gudbjorg b. m. Larry Schau 1 Laura b. 1962 2 Kurt b. 1966 7 Malmfridur Elin Jessie died in infancy 8 John Murray b. 9 Johannes b . d. 22 May 1997 m. Donna 1 Claude 2 Carmen 3 Clayton 4 Terra 10 Lilja Lil b. m. Johannes Jo Koldyk 1 Rita b. d. 1976 2 Brian b. 3Valerie. b. 4 Alan b. d. 1973 11 Anna b. m. Frank Peterson 1 Kathleen 2 Elizabeth 3 Ryan Jon and Runa are shown at left holding Lil and Joe Koldyks children Brian and Rita. When he arrived in the Municipality of Argyle MB there was already anoth-er Jon Johannesson. He unofficially took the last name of frau Breidal pron. bray-dl means from Breidal and his children were given the surname Breidal. More on these brothers and sisters can be found in the R.M. of Argyle history. Thorfinnur Johannesson pron. yo-hannuson Karolinas husband Born February 8 1863 in Flaga at Breidallur Iceland. Died June 6 1944 at Baldur MB. Burried in Baldur ceme-tery. When Thorfinnur was a child they lived in a district where there was much volcanic activity. The children specifically Jon and Thorfinnur were quite at ease with this reality and for ex-ample used to make use of the pots of different coloured volcan-ic boiling mud to paint pictures on the rocks near their farm. This acceptance of their environment however become less when Mount Hecla the most active volca-no erupted and westerly winds blew ash over the land. At their home at Breidal-lur vegetation suffered. Farm animals went hungry and then the people. This low-ered their immunity to communicable disease. By late in the winter Thorfinnurs age 14 health had deteriorated until he could only crawl. A number of his broth-ers and sisters had already died. An uncle who had left the valley to become a fish-erman got word of their plight and came to them bringing a small keg of cod liver oil. He made Thorfinnur promise to drink half a cup every day until his strength and health returned. There are some who like it but most people say cod liver oil tastes horrible. As well Thorfinnur had to promise to crawl out into the sunshine as soon as the sun warmed the turf sufficiently for him to lie there and expose his body to its rays. The cure worked and four of them survived. When Thorfinnur was twelve the family vacated their home at Flaga and split up to stay with various relatives. When he was 13 when his father died and 10 years later his mother Valgerdur decided to move to Canada with her brother Gudmundur. The family was reunited except for Kristbjorg who stayed in Iceland. Thorfinnur emigrated in 1886 at age 23. He said later that it was the unjust laws as set by the Danish overlords affecting farm labourers that led to his deci-sion. They made it to Winnipeg and that fall moved out to Bru District in the Mu-nicipality of Argyle MB. Three years later he married 21-year-old Karolina Ran-nveig Andresdottir on Dec. 19 1890. This was not older than usual. Men were sup-posed to wait until they could afford to sup-port a family and teenage girls are more prone to life-threatening complications dur-ing childbirth. They resided in the Bru dis-trict for five years. In 1893 they moved back to Winnipeg. After two years they moved on to the Icelandic River Riverton district. They felt they would do better since Thorfinnur could augment their farm in-come by fishing in Lake Winnipeg. As well he worked seasonally in the sawmill man-aged by Kristjan Finnson. He found it diffi-cult to provide for his growing family and in 1900 he sold his house to Pall Vidalin. After three years renting from Gudleifur Dalmann at Mkraveillir they returned to Argyle now with seven children. In 1903 Thor-funnur and his two sons twelve-year-old Johannes and nine-year-old Ingi drove his team of oxen White and Bright and his small herd of cattle to their new home a few miles northeast of Baldur. Joe and Ingi chased the animals on foot. For food they had dry bread which they had brought along and fresh milk from their cows. After a few years they were back to Icelandic River but returned to Argyle in about 1918 when close friend Hoseas Josephsson gave them a quarter-section farm after sickness forced him to give up heavy work. It was two miles east of Baldur a mile north and another mile north-east. Thorfinnur kept his cattle out on the farm and they made their home in Baldur in a small house on Shultz Street. This street was always called Coffee Street because there were so many Icelanders and they drank so much coffee. Ice-landers coffee was made in a bag. This went into the metal coffeepot on the stove and was held in place with a wire ring and handle. Boiled water was poured over it to fill the pot and it was allowed to run through and soak for ten minutes. In town Thorfinnur worked as a carpenter and he kept four dairy cat-tle - beautiful big Redpoles that gave a lot of milk. All his cat-tle were well cared for. Karolina tended about 25 chickens and had a few ducks who could make use of the pond at the bottom of the lot. Thorfunnur was a self-educated man reading both Icelandic and English at a time when it was considered fortunate to do either. It had long been the tradition in Iceland to teach boys to read the Bible and to write if possible. In most cases being able to read was a requirement before a young man would be allowed confirmation into the Lutheran Church. Thorfinnur was quiet intelligent and widely read. He read for hours every day and served as custodian of the Icelandic library held in a one-room building behind the Lutheran Church. He preferred material that would teach you s ome-thing and he would throw out a lesser book rather then give it away. He believed in a just compassionate God but would rarely read the Bible and only occasionally attended church - usually just for communion and special occasions. His children were all baptized but he saw no need for confirmation. His memory often astound-ed people and they admired his ability to see things from different points of view. Thorfunnur seemed to suffer few after effects of his malnutrition and he died likely of cancer there was no surgery on June 6 1944 at age 81. He is buried in Baldur Cemetery. Andres Andy Johannesson one of Fijolas chil-dren is seen here with his grandfather sometime around 1935. Clarence the Fjolas oldest son recalls Grandpa was nearly 60 years of age when I came into this world. My first recollection of him was when I went with him to say good-bye to Rev. Hallgrimson who was returning to Iceland. I was only two years of age but I remember having coffee in the kitchen and then outside the door the minister reached down and ruffled my hair as he bade me good-bye. I did not ap-preciate getting my hair ruffled even at that young age In approximately 1927 there was a church convention likely in Baldur where I again kept Grandpa company and remember him getting up and speaking for at least an hour. Following that the chairman Ole Andersen made the remark that as the conven-tion progressed they should take into consideration many of the remarks Thorfin-nur had made. Another story of Grandpa though I do not know what year it took place. He worked on the first elevator built in Manitoba and I believe that to have been at Emerson. All went well until if was time to shingle the roof and Grandpa was the only man left on the job. He did it alone wearing leath-er boots. Thorfinnur built and repaired the wooden sidewalks in Baldur and on that job his favourite horse stepped on a nail. For that to heal takes five to six months. Grandpa made a leather sock and filled it with some bran and disinfectant and that sock lasted all that time until the horse's foot got better. I would have to say that Grandpa's biggest heartache in life was losing his son Pall in W.W. I. He had man-aged to buy a threshing machine and when Pall did not come back to operate it it was disposed of. He was the only boy still at home who wanted to farm. Thorfinnur was self taught and his leisure time was always spent reading. He was thought of as a very intelligent man and could recite poetry Icelandic from morning until night. Thorfunnurs ability to forecast weather a day ahead of time or for the coming season was sought from him by many people. He liked to discuss politics so there were many political arguments at his home. The things that Thorfinnur turned out from his blacksmith shop considering the equipmen t they had in those days was almost beyond belief. He got the equipment from his son Pall who had bought it not long before joining the army. Thorfunnur made a shot gun that is in the possession of Jeanette Gunnlaugson. In some way some years ago my brother Lloyd was able to track it down and bought it. Something that grandpa took to the grave with him was his knowledge of soldering broken tines on a fork. There would not be any bulge and the tine would never break again where he had soldered it. Many years later from another source I was told that I was a very good stack builder and that was really a compliment as that was something Grandpa was meticulous about. A scary incident for me was one time when Grandpa went to chase the neighbour's bull away. The bull charged and Grandpa who probably weighed 160 pounds grabbed the bull by the horns and flipped him over. The bull got up and charged him again and again Grandpa flipped him again. The bull got up and peacefully took off for home When I was about 11 yrs. of age I went shopping with Grandpa at Kadrie's store. Kadrie was a Turkish man who had been a travelling salesman with a small covered wagon called a peddlers caravan. On starting home Grandpa took a dizzy spell and crashed to the sidewalk. My Uncle Ingi was soon found and on that Sat-urday night took us and the groceries home. The following Monday it was mowing time and being along with Grandpa and passing the time snaring gophers I hap-pened to look up and saw the horses had snagged the mower on a telegraph pole and Grandpa was laying about eighty feet further back. He had had another one of his dizzy spells. I managed to back the horses up and free the mower. The haying had to go on so I sat on the mower in front of Grandpa and drove the horses while Grandpa controlled the lever that lifted the cutting bar over obstacles. After a few days Grandpa got over it and never did take the time to see a doctor. Those many years ago Thorfinnur did not like rubber wear on your feet and he already understood how there is a continuous electric current passing down and your feet will stay a lot healthier if that is not re-tarded. A clothing store would not have done much business with Thorfinnur and Karolina. Grandma had a lovely black dress she used on most special occasions during the approximately forty years I knew her. That was the dress she was buried in. Grandpa had a suit for his wedding and then was given a secondhand suit by Wally Anderson to wear at his fiftieth wedding anniversary at the Baldur Memorial Hall and also at his funeral at Baldur Lutheran Church. One thing I forgot to mention is that Grandpa took care of the cows and Grandma the chickens. Grandma never ate eggs and Grandpa did not drink milk. Another quirk only Grandpa's sister Kristbjorg could knit suitable socks that he could wear. Valgerdur Bjornsdottir Karolinas mother. Thorfin-nurs mother-in-law Born August 11 1835 at Meidavellir in Kelduhverfi Died March 10 1910 at age 75. Buried at Bru. Daughter of Bjorn Josefsson of Meidaveillir and Helga Josafatsdottir of the Lake Myvatn district. Valgerdur was first married to Sigvaldi Magnusson and resided at Kelduhverfi. The death of Valgerdurs husband in 1860 left her a 26 year-old widow with three small children 1 Bjorn Sigvaldason Later Walterson 1852-1932 at Bru Photo at left Valgerdur Bjornsdottir lower left Bjorn Sigvaldason Walterson and his wife Kristin about 1900 1981 CioHp696 2 Halldora Sigvaldadottir Oct. 23 1856 - March 24 1941 at Bru Halldora married Brynjolfur Gunnlaugs-son. She was very short and thin and she was called a butterfly by her nieces and nephews. She had a happy disposition and was an excellent midwife who delighted in going out to deliver babies. Her daughter Lena Dunning said it was ok for her to always be on the go because she could al-ways leave her daughters at home to do the work. Halldora was a remarkably fast knitter using noisy steel needles and she continued knitting even after going blind. She would call on her daughter if she dropped a stitch. Haldora and Brynjol-fur were grandparents to both Ray and Sena Gunnlaugson. 1981 CioH p.449 3 Josef Sigvaldason. later Walters Born 1858. Moved to Gardar North Dako-ta. After Valgerdurs first husband died her children were taken in by foster parents. Between marriages she was pregnant by her brother-in-law Bjorn Jons-son and her fourth child Sigurbjorg Sibba was raised by her parents. Andres Johannesson Karolinas father. Thorfinnurs father-in-law Born Oct 10 1844 at Hedinshofdi in Thingeyjarsysla. Died January 28 1910 age 65 Buried at Bru R.M.Argyle Son of Johannes Jonsson from Syrnes in Adaldalur and Olof Andresdottir from Marskot in Reykjadalur. On Oct 13 1868 at age 24 Andres married Valgerdur Bjornsdottir a widow age 34 at Skinnastadur in Iceland. They immi-grated to the Bru district in 1888. Andres wrote short articles and editorials for Manitobas Icelandic newspapers. Valgerdur married Andres Johannesson on Oct 13 1868 at age 34 and they made their home at Prestkvammi near Akurey-ri. Both of her marriages had taken place there. In the photo l-r Karolina Pall Andresson Walterson Valgerdur seated Andres Jo-hannesson and Johannes Andresson. Valgerdur and Andress children were 5 Karolina Rannveig Andresdottir. see below 6 Johannes Andresson Walterson Ju-ly 15 1873 who married Gudbjorn Bjornsson . 7 Valbjorg who died at age 5. 8 Pall Andresson. later Anderson Jun 21 1877 - 1964 who married Gudny Al-bertsdottir . In 1888 they came to Canada and took up residence in the Bru district. Valgerdur was a successful mid-wife and like most she charged no fee. More on these brothers and sisters can be found in the R.M. of Argyle histo-ry. Andres and Valgerdur are both buried in the Bru cemetery northeast of Baldur. The Thor school commemorative cairn is on the north-east corner of the land they homesteaded four miles east and three miles north of Baldur. Photo of brothers top Joseph and Bjorn bottom Pall and Johannes. Karolina Rannveig Andresdottir Johannesson. Thorfinnurs wife Born May 12 1869 Prestkvammi Iceland. Died January 25 1961 age 91 Baldur Manitoba. Buried Baldur Cemetery. Her granddaughter Thora writes She was a one-on-one type of person. Of my grandparents there is no doubt that my Amma Karolina made the greatest impression on me and it is her stories that have stayed with me the longest. She was over fifty when I was born B which was old in 1925 B so I of course remember her only as old very quiet and unassuming but firm in her own way. I believe Amma Karolina's child-hood was happy. Karolina never wanted to come to Canada and would gladly have walked back to Iceland were it possible. This hatred of the New World was not unu-sual and back in Iceland many were angered by the loss of their loved ones to the new fad of emigration. The emigrants were told they would be so much better off if they moved to Canada so Amma Karolina always hated immigration agent Sigur-dur Kristopherson for his exaggerations. She would comment when the occasion arose It is no better to be poor in Canada than it is to be poor in Iceland. Fre-quently on a summer evening she would raise her eyes to the wooded rise beyond the backyard to the last remains of twilight in the western sky and say There is nothing more beautiful than the swan song in the evening when you are roaming on the heath in Iceland. Black Swans On these occasions when she le t her senti-mentality show she described Prestkvammi in detail. When I visited the farmstead in Iceland the tears ran down my cheeks. She had described it well and it was beautiful. The heath had a delicate hue of purple from the blooming Heather . It sloped gently down to the 'b' pron. bi the buildings of the farmyard and racks which still showed the placement of the old original home where she had been born. Lower down the slope of the hill was a gently meandering river winding its way to the North Atlantic. Down on the lush green river slopes a little church was sur-rounded by a stone fence about two feet wide on top of which alpine flowers and many daisies Baldursbra flourished. Sheep roamed at random with no sign of a shepherd and no apparent need for one. In 1888 a boat load of cattle left Iceland loaded to the point of standing or lying in one spot. Along with 19-year-old Karolina were other immigrants who spent the whole trip on the open upper deck sitting in their assigned seat B day and night sun and rain. Only three were women or girls. Under each seat was your personal pot made of wood and you would pee in front of everyone and then dump it over the side. When it rained or the wind swept up a spray you would protect yourself with an oiled sheepskin worn like a poncho. When the ocean voyage final-ly came to an end at Montreal the new immigrants made their way by whatever means to Duluth Minnesota and then on to the Red River system and up to Winni-peg. By horse and by foot they travelled west to the edge of the frontier at the Bru district south-west of Cypress River. At this time most teenage girls worked somewhere as a housemaid and Ka-rolina was immediately sent to work at the home of Kristjan and Thordis Jonsson. C.B. Jonsson a mile south of where Bru Church originally stood. There was no church there until around 1907. About the first chore assigned was to go down to the creek for a pail of water. It was only a short distance from the house. Karolina could find no well or water barrel trap so she went back to the house and asked for further direction. Couldn't you find the creek. Yes. Well dip it out of the creek. Filled with the memory of the beautiful crystal clear water in Iceland she was astounded to think of dipping a pail of drinking water out of the stagnant creek where a sow was wallowing in the mud As a result for her remaining seventy some years Amma drank a lot of milk and coffee made from water that had been well boiled. She rarely if ever drank water. Yes she was stubborn in her own way and she disliked Canada. She refused the language of the country. Even if she could not help learning to understand English she would not let on that she could unless it was absolutely necessary. Her grandchildren had to speak Icelandic if they wanted to communicate with her which we did. But there were occasions when we found out her secrets. She could speak English to her neighbour Mrs. Ag-nes Mathers when no one else was around or when she thought no one was around. And when Oscar Finnson came back home from overseas after WWII Am-ma was so glad to see him and they talked away to beat the band he in English and she in Icelandic. When Amma Karolina was younger she would gladly have returned to Ice-land but as she got older it was quite the reverse. I do not believe she would have returned. The news from Iceland in the local Icelandic newspapers told her things were changing a lot over there and she was afraid they might have changed too much. Somehow there was security in those beloved memories. Late in the autumn of 1890 Karolina realized she was with child. As she said later it certainly did not take her long to let Thorfinnur know that he had to marry her. She never forgave herself for having had to get mar-ried. On December 19th they said their vows in Grund Church - the first couple to be married there following its dedication. It was unfinished and they had to step over loose lumber to go up to the altar. Their witnesses were Pall and Gudny Fridfinnsson. Johannes Joe was born the following May second. In 1893 they gave up the homestead because it was a part of the marsh and was under water every spring or during a wet summer. They went to Winnipeg for a few months where Ingolfur Ingi was born on December 20 in a little house on William Av-enue very near the present site of the Health Science Centre. From there they went to Riverton and in 1903 they were lured back to Argyle close to Baldur by their kinsfolk. Joe was 12 and Fjola was a baby. They had a one-room house with ship-lap siding thin lumber with a lapping lip. In the winter the poor house would sweat terribly and Grandmother's great-est difficulty was keeping her baby dry in a room which continuously dripped. Pneumonia was dreaded and one child had already died. And so life continued B more babies and more poverty but still enough with their reliable hens and cows. At least they were no poorer than most others in the community. Karolina was a home-loving person but she kept abreast of current events by reading the Logberg an Icelandic newspaper published in Winnipeg. She read it as soon as it arrived and their bias became her bias. She never read Heimskrigla like-ly because it supported the Liberals. She read a great deal though not as much as her husband. Thora tells she spoke proper Icelandic in an elegant way the way ed-ucated people in Iceland spoke it and would gently correct my Icelandic until I spoke the way she did. In 1988 when I visited Iceland many remarked that I spoke in the old way. One said I sounded like the sort of old professor who refused to use all the new slang. Amma Karolina was a very healthy person. I remember her having a bout with gout in her hands on one occasion. She did have high blood pressure in her later years and died of a stroke in her own home in Baldur. Dr. Cyril Hamwee sat with her refusing to move her to the hospital. He knew it was her desire to die in her humble shanty. She died on January 25 1961 at age 91 and was buried in the Baldur Cemetery. Karolinas grandson Clarence recallsits hard to find words for a woman who day after day worked from seven in the morning til eleven at night and a lot of that time over a hot stove. My grandpa and grandmas house was always a gath-ering place for visitors and with what little Amma had she always scraped up a lunch or a meal. Her daughter Andrea most of the time when she came to visit would bring some-thing to help her mother out. Then in the fall she would bring about a dozen jars of cha-cha green tomato pickles that was also called chow-chow which Grandma loved and with every meal that com-ing winter that would be included. Over in Iceland they did not have forks and spoons so Grandma carried on with the tradition of eating her meals with a knife. She managed as well as some would with chopsticks Soup was drunk straight from the bowl and then the chunks were scooped up with the knife. Karolina al-ways carried her knife about eight inches long in her apron or skirt pocket. Later each person carried a spoon and a two-pronged fork made of wood of horn. Once in Canada Thorfinnur carved many spoons out of cow horn. Grandma who to me was the dear lady with the short legs and big angel wings became an accomplice to a criminal offence A civil offence For two days she took food and supplies to a namesake of hers It was Lena Haldoras daughter whose daughter also called Lena was married to Jon Jonsson from Piney near Emerson. that had kidnapped her grandchild grand-niece also called Lena and hid with it in the bush while the authorities searched for her. After a break-up in the family she did not want her son-in-law to wind up with the child. Lena and Jon were separated and reconciled several times. One time I slept in the same bedroom with Grandma and after a hot day's work over a hot stove she would come to bed and remark about how cool the bed felt and we would always finish the day saying The Lord's Prayer together. The Children of Thorfinnur and Karolina 1st Johannes Johannesson Born May 2 1891 in Argyle. Died Dec. 18 1967. Buried in Baldur Cemetery. His niece Thora writes Joe suffered as a result of whoop-ing cough and it affected his back. Anaemia and a general loss of resistance caused rickets and this was one of the main reasons why so many children died or were crippled. Throughout Joes life his hump-back gradually got worse. During WWI he served a brief stint in the 222nd Bttn. of the Canadian Army which was being trained at Baldur but it was too much and he was given a medical discharge. Joe dug graves for two dollars but only if people could afford it. For his friends or loved ones there was no charge and he never charged for the grave of a child. For many years he worked for Mr. Bray the local veterinarian and auctioneer helping in the garden keeping the lawn removing the snow. When Mr. Bray was acting as auctioneer Joe was always there pitching in and he often gave a hand to his son Burton Bray unloading the Baldur Transfer. Uncle Joe never married and probably only had one love in his life Lena and he carried that love to the grave. She was promised by her parents to Jon Jonsson and she obeyed their command and raised a fine family in spite of a stormy marriage. Uncle Joe was always so fond of dogs and I remember Patsy a real watch-dog even if just a terrier. Joe's dogs were like him - totally dedicated to their friends. Joe was thoughtful to those he respected and loved and totally the opposite to others - and everyone with eyes or ears knew exactly where they stood with Joe. Joes health degenerated stead-ily the last few years of his life and he finally died after several months in the hospital. I had his grave marked. It seemed to be all I could do for someone who had been so good and received so little in return. 2nd Andrea Valgerdur Johannesson Born April 27 1892 Argyle. Died July 7 1973 at Killarney. Buried at Brandon. Her niece Thora writes snow blew round the window cas-ing and on to the bed when midwife Valgerdur Bjornsdottir delivered Andrea. It was a raging blizzard and she barely made it to the house in time for the birth. On October 26 1916 at age 24 Andrea married Gustav Bjornson May 12 1896 - Dec. 15 1974. They resided on their quarter section four miles north and six miles west of Baldur 30-5-14 until their retirement to Minto in 1960. Seated Mrs L. Bjornson Gustis mother Thorfinnur and Karolina Jo-hannesson. Gusti and Andrea back row 3rd and 4th from left with their children and one son-in-law. They had nine children 1 Paul Ingolfur Oct 15 1917- 2005. Moved to Bayford England. - married Ecil Joy Williamson of Wimbledon. 1a Paul Alexander Bjornson 1b Charles Ingolfur Bjornson 1c John Stefan Bjornson 1d William Hamish Bjornson 2 Gunnlaug Lauga Jonina Mar 2 1919 - 1992 buried at Cypress River MB. - married Bruce Dowd. d. Cranbrook BC. 2a Marie Elaina Dowd 2b Elizabeth Elaine Dowd 2c Joanne Winnifred Dowd 2d Clare Hamilton Dowd 2e Leslie Bruce Dowd 2f Randal Rainey Dowd 2g Diane Dowd August 1961 3 Karolina Lena Valgerdur January 2 1921- 1994 buried at Elgin MB. married Sydney Howe Elgin. 3a Beverly Joan Howe Feb 2 1939 3b Donald Leslie Howe 3c Allan Barry Howe 3d Kenneth James Howe 3e Laurie Milton Howe 3f Garry Robert Howe 3g Darlene Howe 4 Esther Elizabeth Sept 6 1922- 2005 buried at Cypress River MB. - married William Bill M. Dowd Cypress River.MB. 4a Wilson Wayne Dowd May 10 1944 4b Andres Emerson Dowd 4c Myrna Laurie Dowd 4d William Gene Dowd 5 Lillian Soffia Aug. 5 1924 - - married Robert Bob Duncan Hilton MB. 5a Robert Glenn Duncan December 21 1946 5b Arleen Isabelle Duncan September 10 1948 5c Clifford Young Duncan January 23 1954 5d Vern Edward Duncan December 16 1955 5e Iris Doreen Duncan June 16 1959 5f Kelly Lynn Duncan March 10 1963 5g Lois Marie Duncan November 6 1964 6 Alice Thorfinna Mar. 21 1926- Dec. 25 1996 buried at Eriksdale MB. married James Harley Ericsdale MB. 6a Andrea Lorraine Harley 6b Lorne Robert Harley 6c Valerie Ellen Harley 6d Evelyn Faye Harley 6e Adelle Harley 7 Ethel Dora Halldora Oct 31 1927- 2005 burried at married Ed Banks Winnipeg MB. 7a Linda Anne Banks 7b Janice Elizabeth Banks 8 Kristbjorg Helga April 1 1929- married George Gordon High Prairie Alta. 8aSharon Anne Gordon 8b Irene Gaye Gordon 9 Laufey Fay Gudrun March 30 1932 - married Eric Gross Hilton MB. 9a Marvin Eric Gross 9b Kevin Lyle Gross 9c Laurence Paul Gross Andrea worked hard and never had a great deal of anything but children. She kept a garden to supply the familys needs and she took good care of her poul-try so they always had enough. The proceeds of turkeys usually covered the cost of winter clothing and Christmas. Her husband Gustav Gusti pron Goo-stee suf-fered from polio or as it was called then infantile paralysis. One skinny thigh showed the result all of his life and he never had a lot of energy. At about the age of fourteen he was with a friend who was carrying a rifle which accidentally dis-charged killing another youth. The resulting shock remained apparent throughout the years. Andrea had to be the promoter and pusher to make a go of the business of living. You could feel neither like nor dislike for Gusti. At one time a midwife had to order him out of bed when his wife was in labour. Andrea was fortunate in having a very faithful mother-in-law who lived with them. She would clear the ta-ble do the dishes and pick up after nine kids she ironed endlessly and seldom do I remember her uttering a word. I never remember Auntie Andrea as being really happy. She would laugh momentarily while in conversation but that was about it. She chewed her nails beyond anyone's imagination so you could not see a ny re-maining nail. I guess she was nervous. In spite of knowing Andrea for some forty years I never really felt I knew her. 3nd Ingolfur Johannesson Born December 20 1893 on William Ave in Winni-peg. Died August 3 1963 at age 69. Buried in Baldur Cemetery Ingi was photographed with his brother Pall the younger of the two in the photo more often than with any of the other siblings. They seem to have spent much of their youth together. Ingi married Sigrun Kristjana Reykdal October 23 1896 - April 28 1988 in Frelsis Grund Church on March 25 1917 at age 24. Runa was daughter of Jon Kristian Reykdal May 30 1869 - Dec 8 1937 and Sig-urborg Petursson Reykdal Feb 21 1874 - June 5 1964 The wedding took place at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Baldur and witnesses were Salin Sigrun's sister and Hannes Harry Gunnlaugson. Ingi and Sigrun started out renting a Y2 sec-tion four miles south and three miles east of Baldur. In the early1920's as their fami-ly grew to four children he was employed as a butcher for Joe Lyons Butcher shop in Baldur. Ingi had taught himself to cut meat from books. In a Model T he drove the beef ring from Baldur to Neelin. Their was no re-frigeration except for the ice from the butch-er s cellar and that meant butchering and cut-ting it up in the evening delivering it first thing in the morning and being back in Bal-dur before noon. Then home for a nap. He might have stayed in this business were it not for severe headaches. He often needed to car-ry large and cold sides of beef and a doctor thought his condition might improve if he found a different line of work. His daughter Thora writes in 1927 they bought a quarter section two miles north and one mile west 27-5-14 but lost it by foreclosure when unable to meet a payment in 1931. This was due to the fall of prices after the Wall Street crash. The price of wheat went from in 1928 down to 25 cents and barley from to 10 cents. At this time if you failed to make a payment the lender could foreclose and then you lost everything. You would be much worse of than if you had just rented. Ingi had bought it for 4500 and had paid out 2400 including interest and this was a time when you could hire a strong labourer for 50 cents an hour. The mortgagor was Gunnlaugur Davidson who died a few years later. His wealth went to his daughters. His sons who inherited nothing always felt bad about it and tried to help out Ingi when they could. There were others who had the habit of wheeling and dealing in foreclosure and their reputation provided many a sad and angry social conversation. It was very unfair and widespread discontent resulted in the Debt Adjustment and the Foreclosure Act. Gunnlaugur's executors were Siggi Anderson and Bjassi B.S. Johnson and true to form in 1935 they foreclosed on Fred and Gudny Joel when they could not meet the last payment on the same farm. That was the year that crops went down with root-rot and had to be burned in the field. And so it was back to rented land out east from April 1931 to October of 1938. It was four miles north and four miles east of Baldur. A number of local farmers were in the same position as Ingi losing their farm and then renting so bankruptcy no longer carried much of a stigma. They had no car for six or seven years but there was always a good garden and they were successful with a variety of poultry so there was always enough on the table. There were sheep too. Though they had to be herded they always carried their own weight. Wool was washed teased and carded and my mother spun it into yarn for socks sweaters and under drawers for the girls - they needed those for the two mile walk - or ski - to Thor school. For several years my dad had a government approved flock of White Leghorns and they sold hatching eggs to Ham-bley Hatcheries and they paid far better than for grocery store eggs. In 1937 equine encephalitis struck horses by the hun-dreds in western Canada and Ingi lost Tom Black Doll a colt called Dan Patch. And there was Bandy such a strange name for a horse Mother a stout stick in one hand and my little hand in the other entered the barnyard. From around the barn came an angry horse. In an unbelievable flash of speed I found myself plucked off the ground and flung into the back seat of the old Model T under the maple tree. In great Viking spirit mother faced the horse stick swinging defiantly. Bandy returned to the paddock. Shortly after Dad re-turned and Bandy was shot. I believe it was 1936 or 37 when we were down at Grandma Reykdals on a Sun-day afternoon in July. The drought was obvious but crops had come along surprisingly well. As Dad and Uncle Carl relaxed in the spacious livingroom Carl observed a darken-ing of the skies. By Jesus I believe it's clouding over for a rain. They went outdoors to confirm their hopes. A strange and immense cloud covered the southern skies. Riding on a high south wind came locusts from the Dakota's - by the millions Not to be mistaken for grasshoppers they had dirty grey extremities but when they spread their colourful wings they displayed their one and only positive attribute. I remember Dad and Carl tak-ing a white sheet down below the hill to shelter themselves in a wheat field and holding it there briefly while the locusts gathered so he could photograph the marauders with an old 1.98 Eaton's Star Special Box Camera. My dad loved our hens. They were our livelihood it sometimes seemed. Eggs served in a multitude of ways were almost always our supper and any day of the week it was hard to beat a chicken dinner. They provided our income to buy so many other ne-cessities. Our chickens were Purebred Leghorns - the roosters were from R.O.P. Record of Performance birds and he shipped graded eggs to Hambley Hatcheries for years. Every year the flock was government inspected. Now you might expect that the hen house would have to meet some rigid specifications. Well we were on rented land and Olser Hammond and Nanton were not about to give you a dime for staples what than more. Dad erected a poplar pole structure and this was surrounded and covered with turf with some salvaged old windows facing the south. Nests were kept clean and roofs whitewashed and there was no trouble with mites or disease. All food was prepared on the farm ground up and mixed according to Dad's own recipe. When Dad didn't show up for his ten or four o'clock coffee or his dinner or supper one of us kids would be sent to call him. So often we would find him sitting on the floor of the chicken house sur-rounded by gently clucking hens. While he gently talked to them in reply he kept chipping away at the great limestone slabs found here and there in the fields chipping it fine to fulfill the needs and craving of the birds. They swallow stones to help their gizzard to grind up their rough food. Ingi started raising purebred Rat Terriers mixed breed Terriers and pure bred Border Collies. They were not registered pure-breds as there were no dog shows. They were crated and sent in to Winnipeg on the train to be sold by a pet shop. I remember the summer of 1935. We had suffered several years of drought and then it rained and it rained and it rained. Such a God send we thought. Growth was lush and the world was clean and beautiful. But it got to the point where it was too much. It was a warm and breezy Sunday. Uncle Oli had come down from Hor-ton MB near Minto and in the morning he my Dad and our neighbour Jon T.H. Johson were looking over the crops. South of the houses there was Thatcher Wheat on one side of the road and Marquis on the other. They marvelled at the beauty of these crops fully headed and waving in the breeze. The day grew warmer and the breeze increased. The humidity remained high like it had been for weeks. Sitting in the parlour Uncle Oli looked out the window Ingi what in the hell is happening to your wheat It was laying down flat with the breeze root rot This along with rust took care of that years crop. Somehow through struggle and perseverance Dad managed to crop enough damned poor chicken feed to take care of the hens for another season. Hens were so often our salvation. In 1938 an old man informed Ingi in strictest confidence that he was planning on giving up the land that he had rented for the past seventeen years. He felt sure it was a better farm than the one Ingi was on. Arrangements were made and we moved to the half section four miles north of Baldur 2-6-14 and 31-5-14 together but on either side of the road. It was owned by a wealthy women in Scotland who had decided to consolidate her investments. She told the agent that if he liked the person renting it to sell it for 1500. This was a very low price and when they were unable to make the last payment there was no foreclosure. Instead the agent said pay it when you can and Ingi did as soon as he could. The reason why the payment could not be make was both strange and unusual. Dad was running a herd of pigs along with the sheep in the page-wire enclosed meadow and there was a deep slough down in one corner. One pig went out onto the snow covered ice and as pigs are wont to do one followed the other. The weight was too great and the ice broke drowning every last pig. It was a terrible loss but humanity prevailed and soon dad was owner of his own land. He resided there until his death in 1963. He was hoeing the garden when a blood vessel burst in his groin. At the hospital in Baldur the doctor first thought it might be appendicitis. Ingi died three days later. Runa stayed on the farm until 1967 except for winters spent at the home of her son Pall in Burnaby BC. My fathers acquaintances were his friends and the circle was large. A trip to town was a visit to the shoeshop to swap stories with Arni Bjornson and the latest news and views of the community aired. Dad loved children and children in turn lavished their affection on him. Those of his grandchildren who had been fortunate enough to know him will never forget the loss they suffered when he died. I do not like to write about my dad because I am so biased. The faults I saw I would hate to talk about - and yet they were there I know he was not perfect. His greatest weakness were debilitating head-aches. My dad always a lover of children comes into my earliest recollections as a hap-py man fooling with us - me on his knee combing his hair while he grimaced accord-ingly. He had a happy disposition and he liked to joke and tell stories. His love of hunt-ing provided a barrel of stories which he told with envious ability. Dancing was a fa-vourite pastimes but I never knew him to drink alcohol not until I was an adult. He liked Red Cap ale which tastes much like the beer that is imported from Iceland. He only smoked in the company of a participating friend never purchasing tobacco for his own use. Something he learned to like in later years was snuff snoose or a nibble of cut plug. My father was never able to spend much more than a few weeks each year at school but he completed grade four with the help of his Auntie Kristjborg and he learned to read both Icelandic and English. He read slowly but he read a lot and absorbed it all. He liked comic strips like Amos and Andy Mutt and Jeff maybe Lord Plushbot-tom or even Little Kitty Higgins. His ability at mental arithmetic was uncanny. Politics was an great interest and his reading taught him a lot about government. Af-ter reading The Jungle by Upton Sin-clair he became a member of the Co-operative Consumers Federation and remained so for the remainder of his life. His interests were the basics of labour and he never supported com-munism or the extremes that developed after J.S.Woodsworths day. The following poem is based on a story told to Al Thorleifson by his Afi Ingi. Tales told by a Grandfather Tales told by a grandfather Live long in a grandsons memory. Tales of things past. Ingi Johannesson used to tell this story About a wolf and my uncle Pall. The heavy January sky hung grey and crystalline Over the hollow prairie morning. Ingi walked back toward the house Snow crunching under his feet as he Wound his way along the cow trail That meandered through the yard past the pump house. Spattered yellow territorial marks Reminded him of the strange dog That had wandered through two days before. The dog - almost wolf - Had been chased off by his two - His dogs kept the farm guarded. It was a good year for wolf hunting. The bounty helped pay for supplies And the dogs gorged themselves on the carcasses. So many wolves around They had already killed several sheep. As he opened the kitchen door The hot wood heat swept over him. The frost-giants are loose today Runa it is bitterly cold. Pall his son came running to greet him. No doubt the child would soon be talking without stop. Bjorn Ingi and Pall Runa followed from her housework. She knew how cold it was. One wood stove couldnt keep the rest of the house warm. Ingi played with the boy as they sat at coffee. When will you check the traps Runa wondered. The wolves made enough noise last night I think one was caught. I will check them this morning he said. The team didnt want to leave the warm barn. Too cold - they tried to bolt but he held them fast. Hitched to the grain wagon scrunch of hoof and skid Jangle of harness and the dogs Yelping behind all seemed to shatter the cold stillness. A white rabbit bounded across the stubble. The flock of crows held silent in the bluff below. He saw the wolf as he drove down to the lowland Crouching tired out after fighting the traps. The seven traps had been set in a deadly circle The bait in the middle. All seven were scattered now and sprung. The grey scruffy mass did not move as the team approached. He had caught himself twice. In his mad tearing of the ground The frightened wolf had just caught himself again. The traps had been far enough apart that He now lay splayed over the torn sod. The low growl was silenced by one blow of the club. No need to waste a shell on this one He was half frozen already. Ingi threw the carcass into the wagon Before the dogs got at it. He set the traps baited them And set off for home. Runa Im going to leave the wolf on the kitchen floor - thaw it out so I can skin it. Yes she called still busy elsewhere. With that Ingi returned to his work in the barn. Some time later Runa noticed that Pall was no longer with her. She listened and heard him in the kitchen. Poor pussy poor pussy he was crooning. A cat in the house No something else. She walked through the door and stopped. The wolf groggily snuffling half standing Head weaving back and forth And Pall cooing softly to the poor hurt pussycat As he stroked its bobbing head. Runa ran - Dont touch that animal Grabbed the gun and Pall and ran for the barn yelling Ingi Ingi She stayed there until she heard the shot. Ingi and Runa had four children 1 Pall Kristjan Ingolfur Mar 24 1918 - Mar 5 1991 married on Oct. 9 1943 to Irene Rene Marguerite Lit-tle of Hilton MB 1a Karl Llewellyn Johannesson Born August 1 1945 in Kingston when Paul was still in the army. - Married Elaine Bechard 1aa Catherine Michelle Johannesson January 4 1971 1b Waverley Brian Johannesson Born March 6 1947 in Calgary when Paul was a signalman for CNR. - Married Marguerite Strank on September 20 1968. 1ba Mindi Beth Johannesson February 18 1971 1bb Denby Michael Thorfinnur Johannesson February 8 1973 1c Sherry Deleine Johannesson. Born June 2 1948 in Vancouver when Paul was an agent for Prudential Life. - Married Robert John Ward on July 17 1971. 1ca Pollyanna Karen Ward June 9 1972 2 Bjorn Sigfus Thorfinnur May 1 1920 - Jan 6 1979 in Transcona. - Married on Aug. 26 1944 to Sylvia Mae Bales Oct 19 1923 north of Minto MB 2a Blair Bjorn Johannesson September 16 1952 - Married Susan 2aa Kristjana 2b Donald Evan Johannesson July 17 1955 3 Salin Sigurveig February 1 1922 married on December 15 1951 to Antony Tony John Gurney Beaufoy June 10 1917 - May 12 l97l. He operat-ed a radio repair shop on front street between 2nd and 3rd street and was the X-ray tech-nician at the Baldur Hospital. 3a Patricia Melanie Ingrid Beaufoy October 16 1954. - married John Gem-mill and later married Conrad. . 3b Ursula Mae Kristin Beaufoy September 151956. - married Bill Ratt 3ba Andrew Ratt. 3c Lelia Anne Salin Beaufoy September 15 1957 - married Peter 3d Sidney Joy Andrea Beaufoy March 22 1964 4 Thora Sigrun Johannesson Born August 1 1925. - married on Oct. 12 1947 to Allan Olafur Thorleifson Dec 7 1919 - May 23 1977 4a Waverlie Allan born Aug. 21 - died from atelectasis on Aug. 22 1948. 4b Allan Oliver Thorleifson November 6 1950. - Married. Loretta Louise Sawatsky October 14 1962 on June 30 1988. 4ba Erin Rose Thorleifson August 8 1991 4bb David Allan Skye Thorleifson September 14 1993 4c Ian Clive Thorleifson July 21 1952 - Married Barbara Dalton November 18 1954 on July 21 1974. 4ca Mullein Diana Thorleifson November 2 1978 4cb Heather Anastasia June 4 1981 4cc Cara Rose January 1 1986 4d Roderick James Thorleifson November 25 1954 - Married Susan Sue Stanton June 30 1951 on Aug 221987. 4da Rachael Louise Thorleifson March 21 1991 4e Leonard Harvey April 6 1957. - Partner Rosemary Kowalchuk June 22 1957. 4f Neil Thor Thorleifson October 19 1959 - Married Donna Craik June 5 1964 on April 21 1989. 4fa Paul Johann Craik June 23 1993 4fb Olivia Jane Craik Feb. 23 1995. On March 1 1978 Thora married her third cousin Charles Ray Gunnlaugson of Darcy Sask. 4th Pall Johannesson Born January 13 1896 at Icelandic River Riverton Died May 5 1917 France. Age 21. Shown here with his adopted cousins Florence and Margret Reykalin. Buried four miles from Lenns France at the British Military Cemetery. Pall was light hearted and perhaps foolhardy. He and dad were often out hunting or target shooting. Not long before joining the army he had bought blacksmith equipment. He was living with his parents close to Ice-landic River and must have been planning on taking over the farm because after his death in WWI his fa-ther sold his threshing machine since Paul would no longer be around to use it. Ingi often talked of the good times that he and his brother Pall had shared together - most photos of either brother from their youth are of the two of them together. His death brought home the full impact of warespecially since Pall had tried to con-vince Ingi to enlist with him. Ingi chose instead to court Runa. Perhaps in retro-spect Ingi thought he might have been able to keep his reckless brother safe if he had joined him in the trenches. 4th Kristros Helga Johannesson Born August 11 1897 at Icelandic River Died Sept 15 1988 Rose as she was al-ways called was a quiet child and remained quiet all her life. She was a pretty young wom-an and on March 25 1917 she married Herbert Sigurdson. It was a double wedding with her brother Ingi and Runa Reykdal. They had three children 1 Karolina Nanna Born July 12 1918 - - married Olafur Bergman Swanson Winnipeg MB. on their wedding day at right 1a Raymond Carl Swanson 1b Iris Olivia Swanson 1c Donna Cheryl Swanson 1d June Swanson 2 Paul Herbert May 15 1920- Brandon. - married Elizabeth Bawulin. 2a Kenneth Paul Sigurdson 2b Sharon Elizabeth Sigurdson 2c Gregory John Sigurdson 3 Baldwin Halldor July 13 1926 - Feb 24 1999 Brandon MB. - married Shirley Petrick. Roses niece Thora writes Herb and Rose farmed together mainly in the Glenboro area until she became ill. About 1933 Rose started to suffer from depres-sion then called melancholia and she was admitted into the Brandon Mental Hos-pital. In spite of her problems she was able to work full time. She was an excellent seamstress and a great help in the sewing room and she also she worked in the kitchen. When modern medicine aided her she was considered cured in about 1947. She attempted to reenter the world but was overcome by the many changes and begged to be taken back to the hospital where she felt at home. There she re-mained until her health declined and she was moved to a old folks home in Killar-ney. Herbert raised their children as best he could. He farmed until he moved to Stockton to operate the ferry. Herb was fondly known as a junk collector. He did accumulate a lot of old machinery but by the same token he was often able to sup-ply parts and do repair work for many a farmer in a pinch and he was good at re-pairing implements. There was always an antacid pill in his mouth. He resided in Glenboro until illness forced him to spend most of his time in the Baldur Hospital where he died of cancer. I saw Rose at home after she became ill. She would sit and work as if in a dream her head sideways and downward. The following week she was taken to Brandon Mental. I remember particularly how pretty Rose was like a doll. She had no hair-do to enhance her no makeup to highlight her face but she had a per-fect complexion brown fine hair well combed and the loveliest bluest eyes. I was about nine and I remember venturing over and putting my hand on her knee - she glanced at me and a wisp of a smile crossed her lips - only momentarily but it was like a gift. I was too young to really understand and she was too ill to explain. She came to Grandmother's funeral and again I felt it was like a gift when she singled me out to walk hand in hand to the grave side. Later she talked quite a lot and re-membered everyone and everything. A very very sad existence for such beauty to pass through such as a mist of vapour disappears. 6th Olafur Johannesson. Born 1899 Died 1899 at Riverton on the farm. This infant succumbed to pneumonia which was known as the curse of the young and the friend of the old. It was the cause of death for so many young people and relieved the aged of all of their many miseries. Those who died of it suffered neither greatly nor long. 7th Oli August Johannesson. Born August 9 1901 at Icelandic River Died July 11 1952. Buried at Brandon. Oli was footloose and fancy free. He was always joking and laughing and was best remembered by his friends when they were out drinking together. Oli mar-ried Amanda Rivest September 11 and they had five children. 1 Anna Johannesson Sept 29 1923 - B.C. - married Gordon Ballantine 1a Joane Ballantine June 18 1958 1b Valerie Ballantine June 8 1960 1c Billy Ballantine 2 Alice Johannesson August 16 1925 B.C. - married Jack Scott 2a Sandra Scott April 24 1956 2b Gregory Scott July 10 1958 2c Debra Scott January 19 1960 3 Edward Ted Johannesson October 29 - married Claire 3a Shirley Johannesson March 18 1948 3b Rusty Johannesson May 19 1951 3c Mark Johannesson 4 Albert Johannesson July 11 - married Shirley 4a Donnie Johannesson July 15 1959 5 Raymond Oli Johannesson Oli worked for the C.N.R. all of his adult life. He rose through the ranks and was a road master when he died an untimely death as the result of an aeroplane crash at Wawa in western Ontario. It was a Friday afternoon and he was offered a ride by plane which would let him reach home quite a bit earlier. Upon take-off the planes nose did not level off but rather continued on the upswing flipped back-ward and crashed. 8th Fjola Thorlin Johannesson. Born January 18 1903 at Icelandic River Riverton Died January 1 1943 Buried Baldur Cemetery. Fjola worked mainly as a domestic but did a lot of sewing and home-decorating painting and wall-papering. She was energetic and had little difficulty finding work. Although never married she had five children 1 Clarence Johannesson Jan 9 1923 - 2003 son of Torfi Johnson of Bel-mont. - married Alma Dreger in October 1947 1a Martin William Johannesson May 25 1949 1b Harold Ross Johannesson November 20 1950 - married Shelley 1ba Ashley 1c Wilfred Claire Joey Clarence spent some years with his mother and then he made his home with Thorfinnur and Karolina seen here with his aunts Jonina l and Valgerdur until he joined the R.C.A.F. After his time in the forces Clarence began work in the Creamery business working at different times in Belmont and in Morris. He was twice honoured as the Champion butter Maker for Manitoba. 2 Hazel Christine Dunning Born May 5 1926 daughter of Jim French of Greenway. Christine was adopted by Lena and Sheridan Dunning Christine is shown at left with her brother Harry and the Dunnings on their 26th anniversary. Lena was Fjolas first cousin. Christine was a phys. ed. teacher in /Winnipeg and was an avid curler with many championships to her credit. For many years she shared a house with her adoptive mother. 3 Lloyd Harold Gunnlaugsson Dec. 19 1928- 199. Lloyd was adopted by Matta and Magnus Mike Gunnlaugson. Mike was Fjolas first cousin and was likely Lloyds father. Lloyd was skip of the curling team that won the CCA Seniors Champions in 1984. - married Jeanette Collins 3a Lynette Gunnlaugson 3b Daryl Lloyd Gunnlaugson 3c Magnus Derrick 3d 4 Ross Andres Andy Johanesson Born Dec. 22 1930. Son of Andy Gemmill of Baldur. At age 12 after his mother found work in a fishing camp Andy went to stay with his Uncle Ingi and Aunt Runa. When his mother died he frantically told his cousin Thora that he would now have to go live in a orphanage as his mother had warned him. To calm him she said he could stay on with them. Later that day he happily announced the news in front of eve-rybody. Ingi and Runa looked surprised but said nothing. In 1947 after Thora married and rented a house in Baldur her mother took her aside and quietly told her Andy could go live with them since it had been her idea to taken him in in the first place. At left Runa Ingi Andy and his brother Clarence. He stayed with them for three years before moving to Red Lake Ontario and then to nearby Balmerton. He worked in the gold mine specializing in the drilling of ventilation shafts. - married Joan 4a Alfred Andres Johannesson 4b Virginia Johannesson 4c Conrad Johannesson 4d Tommy foster son . 5 Marilyn 1941 Fjola had agreed to be a surrogate mother for a childless couple in the Selkirk area. 6 Jack Kelly More than one of the fathers of Fjolas children had expressed an interest in marrying her but she refused them. When young she wanted to marry August Johnson but her parents did not like his parents and refused their permission. Fjolas unorthodox way of living caused much frustration for her family but she al-ways had good friends. Twice a year she would come to stay with her parents and would clean house for her mother from corner to corner. There was nothing left to clean when Fjola was finished. She died suddenly from a blood-clot in her lung the day before she was to be discharged from a hospital in Winnipeg following surgery for appendicitis. At her funeral service Rev. Fafnis reminded the congregation of the shortcomings of Maria Magdalene and very fittingly quoted the scripture Judge not that ye be not judged. 9th Valgerdur Val Johannesson Born April 26 1905 in R.M. of Argyle. Died 1988. Buried at Bru - married Ken Cameron on September 6 1941. 9a Kathleen Joan January 5 1947 - married Ian Bressy Scott on August 12 1967. Valgerdur was always known as Vala pron. Vulla or Val. She was named after her paternal grandmothers. Val took her high school in Baldur after the family moved back there in 1917. She took a business course in Winnipeg which led to employment as a secretary for CJRC the radio sta-tion later called CKRC. The JR had stood for James Richardson who had made a huge fortune in the grain busi-ness. Val was talkative and always wore fashionable clothing often in the flapper style. Val married Kenneth C. Cameron from Walsall England. He was an officer in the R.C.A.F. so they moved frequently. On January 5 1948- at age 42 she gave birth to their only child a daughter named Kathleen Joan who married Ian Bressey Scott of Ottawa and they had one child. A right Kathleen in front Amma Karolina and her goat with Valdyn Anderson. 10th Jonina Marta Johannesson Born May 13 1907 Died May 9 1981 Buried at Baldur Called Jona by the Icelandic community and Joni pron. Yo-ni by others she contacted tuberculo-sis and went to Ninette Sanatorium in 1929 at age 22. A large number of patients there were either Icelandic or Eskimo. She remained until considered cured around 1940. She married Valtyr Wally Johannesson Anderson of Ninette MB who himself had spent thirteen years in the san. They were mar-ried Sept 8 1935 . In the photo at right l-r Andrea Bjornson Bryndor Dori Johannesson Jonina holding Valdyn Robert Johannesson with his wife Lillian Kulakowsky and Walter Wally Anderson. Jonina and Wally had one daughter Valdyn Jonina born May 23 1942 who went on to be a nurse and then a lawyer specializing in family law. 10a Valdyn Jonina Anderson May 23 1942 - married Peter Duke 0n July 7 1964. 10aa Marin Jonina Duke April 2 1966 10ab Conrad Duke 10ac Andres Duke Valdyn later married Robert Bob Mason. Joni and Wally moved to Winnipeg in 1947. He was trained as an X-ray technician and though never very strong was able to maintain their livelihood. Their last years were very trying for both. Joni was able to stay at home with Valdyn but Wally by necessity went into a nursing home. It was sad. The only thing he had to look forward to was to watch the clock and await the hour of four when each day he would phone home where Joni would try to be close to the phone. Joni had the tal-ents that accompany a fine-hand. She sewed embroidered and did a variety of oth-er sorts of meticulous hand-work. Her friendships were 'true-blue - once a friend always a friend'. 11th Finnbogi Bogi Johannesson later changed to Robert Bob Johnson Born March 11 1909 at Died 19 at Known as Bogi until he left Baldur. Around 1930 he moved to the U.S and worked for United Trucking Services in Detroit. To get his citizenship he told officials he did not know his parents but was sure he was a native-born American named Robert Johnson. He married twice first to Lillian Kulakowsky of Michigan and later to Nancy Ann Grills of Ripley Tenn. They are shown here with Marteinn Martin and Thora Johannesson. They had three children 1 Robert Thomas Johnson Sept 20 1954 - married Noreen Richards of Detroit. 2 Kenneth Eugene Johnson August 19 1955 3 Karol Ann Johnson October 18 1962 Bob made his home in Lincoln County Detroit and retired from employ- ment as a machinist with Ford Motor Co. Bob was quiet and unassuming very ob-servant and remembered it all. 12th Bryndor Dori Johannesson Born Apr. 19 1911. Died Jan 9 1967 age 55. Buried at Baldur. Known as Dori he lived at his parents home all of their life and kept their house afterwards. In his later years every day he would spent time in with the old men who gathered at Harry Leslies shop. Dori might have been successful as he was well informed intelligent and capable but he was quite lazy and preferred to remain dirty and sloppily dressed. He was af-fectionately called the mayor of Baldur as he always had an opinion on whatever went on in town. In the winter of 1967 his dog drew the atten-tion of his neighbour Fred Reykdal by barking continuously at the win-dow. He found Dori dead and frozen. He had died of a massive heart at-tack and it was thought that it had probably happened on January ninth. 13th Gudny Johannesson. Born Oct. 13 1913. R.M. of Argyle Died of pneumonia on December 18 1913. Buried at Bru.',
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This document contains a brief review of the family's history in Iceland and the first generations in Canada.

PMA_2012_000006

Fond: Thorleifson Brothers

Johanneson Reunion Comments 1994 - Clarence Johannesson (1880)

As chair of this reunion, Clarence shared memories of his time living with Thorfinnur and Karolina, his grandparents.

PMA_2012_000046

Fond: Thorleifson Brothers

Sigrun Sveinsson Isberg - Memoir (1920)

Sigrun Sveinsson Isberg was raised in the Mimir School District in Argyle Municipality. This memoir focuses on farm and community life in the 20's and 30's.

PMA_2015_032366

Storm, Gudrun Jonsdottir - Family History (1880)

Gudrun Jonsdottir Storm was one of the few women in the settlement period to be granted a homestead. She and her family lived in the Grund district of Southern Manitoba.

PMA_2020_046559

Fond: Pembina Manitou Archive

Thorfinnur Johanneson & Karolina Ranveig Andresdottir - Their Story (1880)

This reminiscence includes memories of Thorfinnur and Karolina and their family in the voices of several of their descendents.

PMA_2012_000003

Fond: Thorleifson Brothers