ID: 14871
Date of birth : 1975
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1954
Eiríkur Þorsteinsson was born in Suður-Múlasýsla in 1875. Died in Keewatin, Ontario in 1954.
Spouse: 1901 Antonía Ólafsdóttir b. 1874, d.1947 in New Iceland.
Children: 1. Ólafía Kristbjörg f. 1902 2. Þorsteinn f. 1907.
Eiríkur emigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his stepmother, Jóhanna Antoníusdóttir and her children in 1888. Eiríkur og Antonía lived in Selkirk for a short period before moving to Icelandic River Settlement in New Iceland where they made their permanent home.