Oddur Þorsteinsson

ID: 6096
Date of birth : 1850
Place of birth : Borgarfjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1930

Oddur Þorsteinsson was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on September 16, 1850. He died at the Betel Care Home in Gimli on November 18, 1930.

Unmarried and childless.

Oddur was an employee of Guðrún Illugadóttir in Húnavatnssýsla and brought her and her children west to New Iceland in 1900. They lived longest in the Isafold Settlement. They stopped farming in 1920. Oddur then lived with friends in New Iceland before moving to Bethel in Gimli in 1929.