ID: 5677
Date of birth : 1854
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1941
Ingveldur Grímsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1854. She died in 1941 in Manitoba.
Spouse: Illugi Ólafsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1851, d. 1920 in Manitoba.
Children: 1. Grímur b. 1880, d. 1888 2. Þóra b. 1883, d. 1980 3. Solveig Theodora b. 1896, d. 1964.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and settled in New Iceland. They first lived in the Hnausa Settlement, lived in Árnes in 1891, but moved to Selkirk in 1892. There, Illugi took care of the cold storage of the West Icelandic fishing company in Hnausa.