ID: 7379
Date of birth : 1848
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1901
Ólafur Helgason was born in 1848 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. He died in Manitoba on July 8, 1901.
Spouse: Engilráð Jónsdóttir b. October 9, 1850, d. in Selkirk, Manitoba in 1930. She later married Jóhann Sigurður Jóhannsson of Eyjafjarðarsýsla.
Children: 1. Eiríkur b. January 15, 1876 2. Kristján Ingvar b. 1883.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba om 1887 and went to live with Þorgrímur Jónsson, a farmer in Icelandic River (Íslendingafljót) in New Iceland. Engilráð was his sister. They moved in 1890 to Selkirk and lived there.