Hallgrímur Guðmundsson

ID: 1053
Date of birth : 1851
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Date of death : 1906

Hallgrímur Guðmundsson was born in Árnessýsla in 1851. He died in 1906 in Selkirk, Manitoba. He took the last name Backman in the west.

Spouse: Þórey Ingimundardóttir b. 1852 in Árnessýsla.

Children: 1. Helga Margrét b. August 1, 1874 2. Valgerður b. 1881 3. Þórhildur b. 1886 4. Andrés  b. 1887 5. Jónína b. August 23, 1891 6. Skúli b. 1893

Hallgrímur came west to New York in the United States in 1888 with his wife and three children. Helga Margrét came west in 1892 to Winnipeg, Manitoba and waited there for her family who arrived a year later.