ID: 10402
Date of birth : 1872
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Helga Jóhannesdóttir was born in 1872 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla.
Spouse: Páll Ásmundsson b. in 1872 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. in Manitoba in 1908. He took the last name Asmundson in the west.
Children: 1. Haraldur b. 1896 2. Jóhannes b. 1898 3. Kristjana b. 1900 4. Ásmundur b. 1902 Guðný (Jenny) b. 1904 6. Jón b. 1906 7. Pálína (Polly) b. 1912. Helga had a daughter with her first husband: Jóhanna Gestsdóttir b. 1891. She went west with them.
They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1902 and went to the Big Point Settlement. From there, they moved to Minnesota and lived near Marshall. They lived there until 1908, but after Páll died, Helga moved with the children about 1910 to Westbourne, Manitoba.