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Þóra Oddbjörg Sigríður SÆMUNDSDÓTTIR (1852-1919)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Birth:

  • Apr 23, 1852

  • Dvergasteinssókn, Seyðisfjörður, Norður-Múlasýsla, Iceland

  • Baptism:

  • Apr 25, 1852 (age 0)

  • Eiðar, Suður-Múlasýsla, Iceland1

  • Residence:

  • 1860 (age 7-8)

  • Leysingjastaðir, Þingeyrasókn, Húnavatnssýsla, Iceland2

  •  

  • fósturbarn living with Margrét Erlendsdóttir

  • Occupation:

  • 1870 (age 17-18)

  • léttastúlka; Melar, Staðarsókn [a], Strandasýsla, Iceland

  •  

  • working for Jón Jónsson

  • Residence:

  • 1870 (age 17-18)

  • Melum í Hrútafirði, Staðarsókn, Strandasýsla, Iceland3

  • Occupation:

  • 1880 (age 27-28)

  • unknown; Borðeyri, Prestbakkasókn, Strandasýsla, Iceland

  •  

  • working for Kristján Ragnar Júlíus Hall, verzlunarstjóri

  • Residence:

  • 1880 (age 27-28)

  • Borðeyri, Prestbakkasókn, Strandasýsla, Iceland4

  • Emigration:

  • 1900 (age 47-48)

  • from Sauðárkrókur, Sauðárkrókssókn, Skagafjarðarsýsla, Iceland to Canada or USA5

  • Death:

  • Feb 14, 1919 (age 66)

  • Canada or USA

Individual Note

 

Sources

1.

Later Day Saints, https://familysearch.org. "Iceland Baptisms, 1730-1905", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGPL-XTG : 23 June 2020), Saemundur Gislason in entry for Thora Oddbjorg, 1852.

2.

Icelandic Census 1860. Leysingjastaðir, Þingeyrasókn, Húnavatnssýsla.

3.

Icelandic Census 1870, Icelandic Census 1870. Melum í Hrútafirði,Staðarsókn, Strandasýsla.

4.

Icelandic Census 1880. Borðeyri, Prestbakkasókn, Strandasýsla.

5.

Islendingabok, Islendingabok.