ID: 1355
Date of birth : 1847
Place of birth : Rangárvallasýsla
Date of death : 1929
Helgi Árnason was born on September 2, 1847 in Rangárvallasýsla. He died in Saskatchewan on January 16, 1929.
Spouse: Guðrún Jónsdóttir b. 1846 in Rangárvallasýsla, d. September 6, 1923.
Children: 1. Helgi b. 1882 2. Jón b. 1885 3. Arnheiður b. March 24, 1889. Sesselja Jónsdóttir, age 12, was Guðrún’s sister’s daughter and was taken in as a foster child by them.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1886 and took land in the Þingvalla settlement where they then lived.