Hallgrímur Eyjólfsson

ID: 12976
Date of birth : 1873
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1910

Hallgrímur Eyjólfsson was born in N. Múlasýsla in 1873. He died in N. Múlasýsla in August 1910.

Fiancée: Guðlaug Árnadóttir b. 1875 in N. Múlasýsla.

Children: 1. Ingólfur b. 1902 2. Oddný b. 1904 3. Albert b. June 8, 1906.

Hallgrímur and Guðlaug traveled west to Winnipeg, Manitoba with their two children in 1904. Ingibjörg Bjarnadóttir, Hallgrímur’s mother, travelled with them to Canada where another son, Sigurður, had emigrated in 1888. Hallgrímur became ill with tuberculosis in Winnipeg.  They placed their children in foster care and sailed home to Iceland.