Jósef Helgason was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1845. He died in 1912. Spouse: 1) 1866 Hólmfríður Jónsdóttir, d. in Iceland 2) Guðrún Árnadóttir b. August 16, 1854 in N.Þingeyjarsýsla. Children: With Hólmfríður: 1. Helgi Jón b. 1873 2. Jóhann Pétur b. 1874. With Guðrún: 1. Árni Soffonías 2. Hólmfríður 3. Margrét 4. Frímann. Jósef came west with his son Helgi …
Rósa I Jónsdóttir
Rósa Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir was born in S. Múlasýsla on August 18, 1867. She died in Blaine, Washington on January 9, 1950. Spouse: October 1, 1892 Tryggvi Jónsson b. in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1850, d. November 15, 1922 in Leslie in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð). Children: 1. Marin Ólafur b. June 25, 1897 2. Rósa Kristbjörg b. October 2, 1898 3. Halldór …
Gunnlaugur Tryggvason
Gunnlaugur Tryggvason was born at Langanes in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on November 14, 1880. He died in Fargo, N. Dakota on July 14, 1964. He took the last name Johnson in the west. Spouse: Viktoría Jónsdóttir b. 1890 in Árnessýsla. Children: 1, June b. June 1, 1920 2. Mayo Leifur b. May 25, 1922, d. in WW II in Europe on …
Jón Tryggvason
Jón Tryggvason was born at Langanes in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on November 22, 1882. He died in Los Angeles on April 3, 1963. Spouse: Ethel Griffith, Irish descent, d. September 5, 1963. Childless. Jón was the son of Tryggvi Jónsson and his first wife, María Gunnlaugsdóttir who died in Iceland on June 1, 1889. Jón came west in 1893 with his …
Björn Árnason
Björn Árnason was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1868. He took the last name Anderson in the west. Unmarried and childless. Björn came to the west in 1888 and was first in N. Dakota. His brother Eiríkur came west in 1890 and together they went west to the Pacific in 1891 and settled in Victoria on Vancouver Island. They moved from …