Helga with Soffía Kristín Photo: SÍND
Helga Steinvör Baldvinsdóttir was born on December 4, 1858 in Húnavatnssýsla. Died October 23, 1941. Undína was the name she used as a poet.
Spouse: 1) Jakob Jónatansson Líndal, they divorced 2) Skúli Árni Stefánsson b. 1867 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. 1904 in Oregon. He took the last name Freeman in the west.
Children: With Jakob: 1. Friðrika Jósefína b. 1879, d. 1891, buried in Garðar 2. Kristín Ingunn b. 1881, d. October, 1886 3. Soffía Karólína b. 1883, d. in Garðar 1883 4. Jakob Ásgeir b. 1884, d. in Oregon 1915 5. Soffía Karólína b. 1886, d. in Garðar 1888 6. Soffía Kristín Guðrún b. June, 1890. With Árni: 1. Walter Baldwin b. December, 1898 in Oregon.
Helga came west to Canada with her parents in 1873 and lived with them in Muskoka, the first Icelandic colony in Canada. The settlement was in Cardwell, north of the village of Rosseau. There she married Jakob, who also moved west in 1873. They moved west to N. Dakota in 1881 and settled in the Garðar Settlement. Helga and Jakob divorced, she moved west to the Pacific Ocean and lived there.