ID: 4773
Date of birth : 1864
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Date of death : 1940
Tryggvi Þorsteinsson was born on April 23, 1864 in Árnessýsla. He died in Saskatchewan on September 22, 1940.
Spouse: Jóhanna Rósa Jónsdóttir b. August 2, 1872 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. December 7, 1925
Children: 1. Jón b. June 1, 1892 2. Helga b. December 1, 1900.
Tryggvi came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 and worked for farmers near Brandon during the fall harvest that year. He and his brother Eiríkur went to the Hólar settlement (Tantallon) later in the autumn and arrived there on October 11 and took land. Jóhanna Rósa was the foster daughter of Helga Sigríður Ingjaldsdóttir and they came west to Winnipeg in 1888.