ID: 9425
Date of birth : 1838
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1880
Hallgrímur Þorkelsson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1838. He died in Curitypa (Curitiba), Brazil in 1880.
Spouse: Anna Pálsdóttir b. 1836, d. 1923 in Brazil.
Children: 1. Páll b. 1862 2. Vernharður b. 1863 3. Sigtryggur b. 1865 4. Hólmfríður b. 1869, d. in Hamburg 1873 5. Þorkell b. 1871 6. Hólmríður b. in Brazil c.1875.
They sailed in the summer of 1873 from Akureyri to Copenhagen and from there to Hamburg. From there they sailed west and arrived at a destination in the state of Paraná on the east coast of Brazil on January 8, 1874. They settled on their own land in Curitypa and Hallgrímur died there, but Anna continued farming until her death.