ID: 1160
Date of birth : 1859
Place of birth : Gullbringusýsla
Date of death : 1949
Guðmundur Þorsteinsson: Born at Seltjarnarnes in Gullbringusýsla in 1859. He took the last name of Thorsteinsson in the west. He died in 1949 in Iceland.
Spouse: Vigdís Þorleifsdóttir b. Árnessýsla in 1854. She died in 1947.
Childless.
They came west in 1888 and took land in the Argyle Settlement a year later. They lived there until 1908 when they sold everything and moved back to Iceland. They were not in Iceland long before returning to the west. However, Guðmundur could not stay away from his homeland and moved back to Iceland, dying in Reykjavík. Vigdís stayed in the west until her death.