Þorsteinn Guðmundsson Photo: VÍÆ I
Þorsteinn Guðmundsson was born in N. Múlasýsla on January 14, 1884. He died on March 21, 1966 in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan.
Spouse: December 22, 1920 Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir b. in N. Múlasýsla on April 26, 1887, d. in Vatnabyggð on April 18, 1958.
Children: 1. fosterchild Hulda.
Þorsteinn came west to Manitoba in 1905 and studied the conditions in Manitoba. He returned to Iceland in 1908, probably due to the death of his father, Guðmundur Jónsson in Rjúpnafell. In 1911 he comes back west to Winnipeg, now with his mother, the widow Anna Margrét Þorsteinsdóttir and his brothers, Páll and Björgvin. Þorsteinn then moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in 1915 and started farming near Leslie. Ragnhildur was the daughter of Jón Jónsson from Sledbrjót in N. Múlasýsla and his wife, Guðrún Jónsdóttir. She moved with them to Manitoba in 1903.