Þorsteinn Helgason

ID: 6268
Date of birth : 1872
Place of birth : Mýrasýsla
Date of death : 1958

Þorsteinn Helgason was born on August 12, 1872 in Mýrasýsla. He died in New Iceland on December 4, 1958.

Spouse: 1) June 10, 1896 Guðríður Jóhannesdóttir b. 1871, d. 1902 2) Jóhanna Margrét Jónsdóttir b. 1858 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. October 29, 1938.

Þorsteinn had no children.

Þorsteinn and Guðríður came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in June 1899 and settled in Mikley where Þorsteinn’s parents, Helgi Sigurðsson and Valgerður Brynjólfsdóttir, had homesteaded in 1893. Þorsteinn was a farmer.