ID: 19165
Date of birth : 1856
Place of birth : Rangárvallasýsla
Date of death : 1944
Elín Þorsteinsdóttir was born in 1856 in Rangárvallasýsla. She died in Lundar on January 11, 1944.
Spouse: Jón Eiríksson born in Mýrasýsla in 1864.
Children: 1. Sigurður Jón d. 1918 2. Einar 3. Svanborg 4. Solveig d. in Quebec 1900.
In 1890, Jón and Elín worked in Knarrarnes in Mýrasýsla. In the last decade of the 19th century, the four children were born and the family came west across the ocean in 1900. Upon arriving in Canada, Solveig died, but the couple continued west to Lundar, Manitoba and took land near Otto in 1902. They lived there the longest.