Helga Hallgrímsdóttir

ID: 12694
Date of birth : 1863
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1948

Helga Hallgrímsdóttir was born in 1863 in N. Múlasýsla. She died in Saskatchewan in 1948.

Spouse: Árni Jónsson b. at Hólsfjöllum in S. Þingeyjarsýslu in 1860, d. in the Vatnabyggð (Lakes Settlement) in Saskatchewan in 1946.

Children: 1. Laufey b. 1887 2. Jón b. 1889 3. Sigríður b. 1893 4. Guðmundur b. in N. Dakota 5. Ernest b. in N. Dakota 6. Karl (Carl) b. in Winnipegosis 7. Benedikt b. in Winnipegosis.

They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1893 and from there south to N. Dakota. They moved in 1900 to Winnipegosis and then in 1907 to the Vatnabyggða (Lakes Settlement) in Saskatchewan where they took land in the Grandy district.