Hallfríður Magnúsdóttir was born in 1866 in Skagafjarðarsýsla.
Spouse: 1890 Þórarinn Guðmundsson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1870.
Children: 1. Sigríður Florence 2. Ása Jóhanna 3. Ingibjörg Sigurlaug 4. Lilja Þorfríður 5. Stefán Victor.
Hallfríður came west to Canada in 1874 with her foster parents, Hafsteinn Skúlason and Sigríður Þorbergsdóttir. They were in Ontario the first year them moved east to Nova Scotia and settled in Markland. In 1880 the family moved to N. Dakota and took land near Mountain. Þórarinn moved to his Western home in 1876 with his father, Guðmundur Guðmundsson, and siblings. His mother had died a few years earlier. Guðmundur moved with his children to New Iceland but died shortly after arriving there. Þórarinn was taken in as a foster by the couple Sveinbjörn Jóhannesson and his wife Þorbjörg Eiríksdóttir. They had come west on the same ship and likewise moved to New Iceland. Sveinbjörn moved from New Iceland about 1880 and settled near Mountain, N. Dakota. Þórarinn grew up there and in 1889 Hafsteinn Skúlason died and Þórarinn worked for his widow, Sigríður Þorbergsdóttir. Her foster daughter was Hallfríður Magnúsdóttir. The newlyweds moved west to Calgary and Sigríður moved with them. They settled east of the Medicine River, a short distance from Stephan G. Stephansson. Þórarinn became a farmer and lived there until 1905, sold his house and land, and moved to the town of Red Deer and lived there after that.