ID: 12354
Date of birth : 1869
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1939
Hallgrímur Sigurðsson was born at Restará in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1869. He took the name Grimur Eyford in his Western Home. He died in 1939 in Winnipeg.
Spouse: Sveinbjörg Pétursdóttir was born in Suðursveit in E. Skaftafellssýsla in 1872. She died in 1936 in Winnipeg.
Children: 1. Hallgrímur 2. Jónas 3. Hulda 4. Bertrand 5. Victor 6. Ottó 7. Glen 8. Elva 9. Thelma.
Grímur came west in 1893 and settled in the Argyle Settlement. Sveinbjörg came west in the same year as Grímur and the two were married shortly after coming west. They lived the longest in Prince Albert in Saskatchewan, after living in the Argyle Settlement, but moved to Winnipeg in 1927.