ID: 7643
Date of birth : 1869
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1955
Helga Gunnlaugsdóttir was born in 1869 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in 1955.
Spouse: Jónas Jónsson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1872, d. 1956.
Children: 1. Björn b. 1898 2. Friðbergur Jón b. 1901 3. Gunnlaugur Magnús 4. Vilborg Þórunn Anna 5. Jóhannes.
They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1902. They first lived in N. Dakota but then took land in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1906. Coming west with them was Helga’s mother, Anna Halldórsdóttir. She was also the mother of Vilborg, wife of Halldór Jónsson who came west in 1900.