Helga Jónsdóttir at her home with Magnús in Ósland. With her in the photo is Árni Þórarinsson, one of the first settlers in Ósland. Photo: MoO
Helga Jónsdóttir was born in 1853 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla. She took the last name Freeman in Canada.
Spouse: Magnús Ólafsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1852, d. in Lundar in 1928. He took the name Freeman in the west.
Children: 1. Ásmundur b. 1878 2. Gunnar b. 1885 3. Petrína b. 1889 4. Ólafur b. 1895 5. Jóhanna b. 1893
They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1886 and a year later they bought land in the Lundar Settlement. Then they moved north to the Narrows on Lake Manitoba and named their land “Freeman´s Point”. After an 11-year stay by the lake, they were forced to leave Narrows due to heavy flooding; all the fields and meadows went under water. They returned to the Lundar community and settled on land west of Lundar. From there they made their way to Oslo, British Columbia, where they lived for some years but returned to Lundar in the early 1930s.