ID: 12170
Date of birth : 1897
Jósef Hjálmarsson was born in Vopnafjörður in N. Múlasýsla on February 25, 1897. He had the last name Josephson in the west.
Unmarried and childless.
Jósef was the son of Hjálmar Jósefsson and Þóra Jónsdóttir who came west in 1903. They family was first in Minnesota, then moved from there to Leslie, Saskatchewan and settled on land just south of the village of the same name. There, Jósef became a participant in a family farm with his siblings, Kristín and Jón.