When Gísli Bödvarsson was born on 2 October 1829, in Fljotshlid, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland, his father, Böðvar Guðmundsson, was 35 and his mother, Guðrún Gísladóttir, was 35. He married Elín Jónsdóttir on 23 July 1860, in Stórólfshvoll, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 9 July 1897, in Breiðabólsstaður, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland, at the age of 67, and was buried in Fljotshlid, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland.
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A new constitution is given to Iceland by the Danish King Christian IX.
In Iceland a nationalist movement re-established the Althing.
Swiss German and South German: from a pet form of the personal name Gill ‘Giles’.
Italian: patronymic or plural form of the personal name Gillio, a vernacular derivative of Aegilius, a later form of Latin Aegidius (see Giles 1).
French (southern): of Italian origin (see 2 above) or a variant of Gilles .
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