ID: 6544
Date of birth : 1829
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Hafsteinn Skúlason was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1829.
Spouse: Sigríður Þorbergsdóttir b. 1822.
Children: 1. Jóhanna b. 1856. They also had a foster daughter, Hallfríður Magnúsdóttir, b. 1866.
Hafsteinn emigrated west to Ontario, Canada with his mother, Jóhanna Jósefsdóttir, his daughter, Jóhanna, and Hallfríður. They stayed in Kinmount the first year. Sigríður joined them a year later. They moved east the same year to Markland, Nova Scotia where they lived in Fljótshlíð. They moved to N. Dakota about 1880.