Sigurður Hákonarson was born in 1819. He was therefore one of the oldest western Icelanders. Spouse: Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir b. 1819, they divorced. Children: 1. Guðrún b. 1849 He was 68 years old when he came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887. Sigurður’s fate in the west is not known, but one source reports that Sigmundur Stefánsson from Húnavatnssýsla, who took …

Þorsteinn Helgason was born on August 12, 1872 in Mýrasýsla. He died in New Iceland on December 4, 1958. Spouse: 1) June 10, 1896 Guðríður Jóhannesdóttir b. 1871, d. 1902 2) Jóhanna Margrét Jónsdóttir b. 1858 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. October 29, 1938. Þorsteinn had no children. Þorsteinn and Guðríður came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in June 1899 and settled in …

Guðríður Jóhannesdóttir was born in 1871 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died in Mikley, Manitoba in 1902. Spouse: June 10, 1896 Þorsteinn Helgason b. August 12, 1872 in Mýrasýsla, d. in New Iceland on December 4, 1958. Childless. Þorsteinn and Guðríður came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in June 1899 and settled in Mikley where Þorsteinn’s parents, Helgi Sigurðsson and Valgerður Brynjólfsdóttir, had …