Helgi Elías Jónsson was born on March 13, 1887 in the Lyon County Settlement in Minnesota. He died in 1970 in Mountain, N. Dakota. He had the names Henry Johnson and H. E. Reykdal in the west. Unmarried and childless. Helgi grew up in the home of his parents, Jón Gíslason and Þóra Halldórsdóttir, in Minnesota and moved west with …

Helgi Helgason was born on January 23, 1848 in Reykjavík in Gullbringusýsla. He died in Iceland on December 14, 1922. Unmarried Child: 1.  Sigurður Helgi came west in 1902 and went west to the Pacific Ocean. He worked in music but moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905 and settled there near the town of Wynyard. He …

Bernharður Jónsson was born at Mosfellssveit in Kjósarsýsla in 1857. He took the name Bernhard Johnson in the west. He died in Saskatchewan in 1910. Spouse: 1889 Valgerður Eiríksdóttir b. in Árnessýsla in 1859. Bernharð came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883 and moved onward from there to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan where he was one of the first …

Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on October 1, 1853. Spouse: 1880 Þórður Guðmundsson d. 1884. Childless Guðrún came west in 1886 to Winnipeg, Manitoba and in May 1887, she moved west to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan and took land. She lived there until 1894, but then she moved to the community of Theodore in the southeast of the …

Kristján Jónsson was born on February 13, 1875 in Dalasýsla. He died in Saskatchewan on December 14, 1955. He took the last name Johnson in the west. Spouse: Matthildur Johannesson of Swedish descent. Children: 1. Adolf 2. Ragna. Kristján moved to Norway in 1899 and lived there two years. He got married and moved from there to Winnipeg, Manitoba and …

Kristján Jóhann Kristjánsson was born in 1865 in Gullbringusýsla. Spouse: Petrína Pétursdóttir. Children: 1. Jóhann 2. Guðrún. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba just before the turn of the century and moved to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan in the spring of 1900. They took land and lived there.

Magnús Sigurðsson was from S. Múlasýsla. He died in Saskatchewan in 1893. Spouse: Ingigerður Jónsdóttir, information needed. Children: Information needed. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba and from there in 1886 to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan where they took land. Ingigerður moved from the settlement after Magnús died.

Árni Hannesson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1845. Spouse: Margrét Guðrún Hallgrímsdóttir b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1852. Children: 1. Eggert 2. Jón 3. Hallgrímur 4. Óli 5. Tryggvi. Two sons, Hannes and George, died in childhood. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 and moved west to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan. They first lived in Churchbridge but then …

Guðmundur Sveinbjörnsson was born on July 18, 1862 in Árnessýsla. Spouse: 1885 Guðrún Þorsteinsdóttir b. 1862 in Gullbringusýsla. Children: 1. Guðmundur b. 1886 2. Kristín Álfheiður b. 1888 3. Sveinbjörg Guðrún b. 1890 4. Þorsteinn Sveinbjörn 5. Guðbjartur Óskar. They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1900 and soon moved to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan.

Ólafur Gunnarsson was born on January 6, 1866 in Gullbringusýsla. Spouse: 1904 Kristín Magnúsdóttir b. 1861 in Árnessýsla. Ólafur came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1898 and went first to N. Dakota. He worked for farmers for several years, before taking his own land in the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan in 1904. Kristín came west with her parents, Magnús Einarsson …