ID: 7170
Date of birth : 1840
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1915
Magnús Þorsteinsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla on January 10, 1839. He died on January 6, 1915. He took the last name Thorsteinson in the west.
Spouse: July 7, 1869 Oddný Þorsteinsdóttir b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1846.
Children: 1. Sæunn b. 1872, 2. Steinunn b. 1882 3. Jónína b. 1884 4. Guðbjörg b. 1887.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and took land in the Beaulieu Settlement west of Hallson, N. Dakota. They moved to the Brown Settlement in Manitoba in 1902.