ID: 5676
Date of birth : 1851
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1920
Illugi Ólafsson, Ingveldur Grímsdóttir and Þóra Illugadóttir in 1890. Photo: Hnausa Reflections
Illugi Ólafsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1851. He died in 1920 in Manitoba.
Spouse: Ingveldur Grímsdóttir b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1854, d. 1941.
Children: 1. Grímur b. 1880, d. 1888 2. Þóra b. 1883, d. 1980 3. Solveig Theodora b. 1896, d. 1964.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and settled in New Iceland. They were first in the Hnausa Settlement, lived in Árnes in 1891, but moved to Selkirk in 1892. There, Illugi took care of the cold storage of the West Icelandic fishing company in Hnausa.