When Þórleifur Eyjólfsson was born on 1 February 1835, in Holt, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland, his father, Eyjólfur Ketilsson, was 30 and his mother, Jorunn Olafsson, was 22. He married Sigríður Brynjólfsdóttir about 1858, in Holt, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 16 October 1911, in Efrirot, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland, at the age of 76.
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