ID: 6296
Date of birth : 1843
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1918
Jónas Leó Hjálmarsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1843. He died in Selkirk, Manitoba on May 18, 1918. He took the name Leo in the west.
Spouse: 1871 Sæunn Sigurðardóttir b. 1831 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. 1911.
Children: 1. Hjörtur b. 1875, known to western Icelanders as Reverend Hjörtur Leo.
They emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883 and settled in New Iceland. They took land in the Víðirnes Settlement and called it Nýstað. They moved and lived at Nýjabæ in the same settlement for a few years before moving to Selkirk.