This personal fonds concerns a married couple who left Iceland in 1889 in a family group that included Jóhannes’s widowed aunt and foster-mother Ovída Jónasdottir of Hvammur (1834–1909), the couple’s daughter Elína and two foster-children. They initially emigrated to North Dakota in the United States but moved in 1890 to the North West Territory (modern-day Saskatchewan), where they settled on a farm near Calder. Among the sources in the fonds are personal letters to Sigurlaug and Jóhannes, a diary kept by Jóhannes in 1889–1890, a speech held at Sigurlaug and Jóhannes’s golden wedding anniversary in 1936, a newspaper obituary on Sigurlaug’s death in 1944 and a photocopy of an account book belonging to Óvídá prior to her emigration (1886–1887).
Original source name : Jóhannes Einarsson and Sigurlaug Þorsteinsdóttir Fonds
English translation : Jóhannes Einarsson and Sigurlaug Þorsteinsdóttir Fonds
Creator : Family
Document- type 2 : personal
Reference number : Jóhannes Einarsson og Sigurlaug Þorsteinsdóttir 2012/63. 2012-A/1 1–3.
Language(s) : Icelandic
Geographical coverage : Iceland
Time range : 19th-20th c.
Year(s) : 1886–1947
Theme 1 : family
Link to the item in the catalogue : A description of the fonds is available [https://www.herak.is/static/extras/files/2012-63%20Johannes%20Einarsson%20og%20Sigurlaug%20Thorsteinsdottir1354.pdf]
English translation : Jóhannes Einarsson and Sigurlaug Þorsteinsdóttir Fonds
Creator : Family
Document- type 2 : personal
Reference number : Jóhannes Einarsson og Sigurlaug Þorsteinsdóttir 2012/63. 2012-A/1 1–3.
Language(s) : Icelandic
Geographical coverage : Iceland
Time range : 19th-20th c.
Year(s) : 1886–1947
Theme 1 : family
Link to the item in the catalogue : A description of the fonds is available [https://www.herak.is/static/extras/files/2012-63%20Johannes%20Einarsson%20og%20Sigurlaug%20Thorsteinsdottir1354.pdf]
Archive name : Héraðsskjalasafnið á Akureyri
Archive name (English) : Akureyri Regional Archives
Archive address : Brekkugötu 17, 600 Akureyri, Iceland
City : Akureyri
Country : Iceland
Official website and institutional resources : https://www.herak.is/
Archive name (English) : Akureyri Regional Archives
Archive address : Brekkugötu 17, 600 Akureyri, Iceland
City : Akureyri
Country : Iceland
Official website and institutional resources : https://www.herak.is/