ID: 19220
Date of birth : 1852
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Margrét Guðrún Hallgrímsdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1852.
Spouse: Árni Hannesson b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1845.
Children: 1. Eggert 2. Jón 3. Hallgrímur 4. Óli 5. Tryggvi. Two sons, Hannes and George, died in childhood.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 and went west to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan. They first lived in Churchbridge but then took land in the community in 1891. Eight years later, in 1899, they moved east to Binscarth, Manitoba where they leased land for almost a year. In the spring of 1900, they bought two land parcels in the middle of the Big Point Settlement and lived there until 1926 when they sold the land and moved to Langruth.