ID: 6978
Date of birth : 1835
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1911
Hallgrímur Hallgrímsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1835. He took the last name Holm in the west. He died in N. Dakota in 1911.
Spouse: 1854 Guðbjörg Jónsdóttir b. 1834 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. 1913.
Children: 1. Sigurður b. 1851 2. Hólmfríður b. 1858 3. Kristrún b. 1859 4. Ósk 5. Hólmfríður. In all, they had 11 children, 5 died in childhood, one was stillborn.
They emigrated west by sea to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and traveled on to New Iceland. They lived in Gimli for two years, but returned to Winnipeg in 1878. A year later, they moved south to N. Dakota and bought land in the Hallson Settlement.