The accepted record of Gudmund Gudmundsen has his ancestry firm in the Icelandic settlement, that is from about year 900. As those settlers were nordic, they could not have origins so very different that of Niels Jorgensen Garff or Marie Jacobsen. Here are small snapshots of their genealogy.
Marie Jacobsen was born 9 Dec 1820 in Bjergskov, Kobenhaven, Denmark to Jakob Nielsen (b 1793) and Inger Larsen (b 1793) where she was christened in the state church. She married 4 Nov 1842 at Saerslev, Holbaek, Denmark to Niels Jorgensen Garff.
Marie's paternal grandparents were Niels Hansen (1758-1831) and Margarethe Jacobsen (b 1763). Married 9 Mar 1783, they lived at Skibby Fredriksberg, Denmark. Marie's maternal grandparents were Lars Pedersen (b 1750) and Inger Abrahamsen (b abt 1774).
On 7 Feb 1908 Marie passed away on the train returning home from Iona, Idaho, where she had visited family. Cause of death is listed on the Utah death certificate as unknown but natural. Death occurred about twenty minutes south of Ogden. The certificate however was completed in Salt Lake City. She was 87. Marie is buried in the Lehi City Cemetery, not far from one of her sons.
LDS Church archives have records in the fourth, fifth and sixth generations for Marie. I found these at www.familysearch.org and then searched Trees; some records are duplicated, others have multiple parent records. As you search you may be able to extend your own pedigree further.
Niels Jorgensen Garff we know died on the Pioneer trail near Fort Laramie- in the present day Wyoming and Nebraska border region. He was born 20 Jan 1811 at Eskebjerg, Sjelland, Denmark. His parents being Jorgen Nielsen Garff (1777-1858) and Maren Olsen (1784-1857).
Parents of his father were Hartvig Wilhelm Garff and Margrede Nielsen (1747-1816) and of his mother Ole Larsen and Elsie Marie Olsen. I find nothing more of Niels' maternal line than this.
Gudmund Gudmundsen was born 23 Mar 1825 in the Westermanjar region of Iceland. He followed the living of his family until going to Denmark (at the time the center of government of his country) to apprentice in a skill. Here he became familiar with and joined the new church that had recently sent missionaries. He was encouraged to return to his homeland to preach and establish this faith there. He had a companion in this effort at first and they are credited with being the first Mormon missionaries to Iceland. When his companion died Gudmund continued to share his faith, encountering aggressive resistance. At some point it seems he returned to Denmark and with a large body of fellow saints heeded to desire to gather with the church, coming to Utah where he died 21 Sep 1883 in Logan, Cache Valley. He lies interred in Draper Utah, in the older - or Pioneer- cemetery.
Gudmund's parents were Gudmund Benediktsson (b 1779) and Gudrun Vigfusdottir (b 1789) both of the same region on the south coast of Iceland. Paternal grandparents were Benedikt Arnason (b 1750) and Sigrid Gudmundsdottir (b 1752); his maternal grandparents being Vigfus Magnusson (b 1749) and Gudlaug Jonsdottir (b 1754).
The famous published Sagas of Iceland give the colorful tale of Gudmund's family heritage; I found on one family group sheet in the Icelandic Family Project a note that one father in the line "could not be" and whether there was an adoption or other arrangement I do not know, it could also have been that person's error or the author of the form. I do not believe it was within these three generations.
In various records of these three honored ancestors one finds many variations in the names. Jacobsen, Garff, and Gudmundsen have been the adopted use in America and I will use only these. If I should refer to a record with an alternate spelling or different name I will note that to better enable your own researching. One name which I find repeated for Marie is the name Sabey, but I can learn no source for that name (it is also attributed to her father on some records). In Iceland Gudmund would naturally be referred to as Gudmundsson, but Gudmundsen has been our use since we came here.
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