ID: 9073
Date of birth : 1873
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1953
Þorsteinn Sveinsson Mynd A Century Unfolds
Þorsteinn Sveinsson: Born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1873. He died in 1953. He took the name Thorsteinn Swainson in the west.
Spouse: 1896 Kristín Jóhannesdóttir b. 1875
Children: 1) Ingólfur 2) Ari 3) Anna 4) Sveinn stayed in Iceland. 5) Björn 6) Valtýr Jóhannes 7) Guðríður 8) Aðalheiður Brynhildur.
They came west in 1905 and bought land in the Framnes-Árdals Settlement, naming their farm Svalbarð. They moved to Argyle in 1918.