When Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson was born in 1786, in Vestur-Skaftafellssýsla, Southern, Iceland, his father, Þornsteinn Eyjólfsson, was 40 and his mother, Karítas Jónsdottir, was 41. He had at least 4 sons and 8 daughters with Elín Jónsdóttir. He died on 26 January 1845, in his hometown, at the age of 59, and was buried in Dyrhólar, Vestur-Skaftafellssýsla, Southern, Iceland.
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