When James Thomson was born on 15 September 1821, in Unst, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Nichol Thomson, was 29 and his mother, Mary Sinclair, was 33. He married Barbara Smith on 24 December 1846, in Unst, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 10 daughters. He died on 11 June 1867, in At Sea, at the age of 45.
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Scottish, English and northern Irish: variant of Thompson .
Scottish: sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic McThomas; see McTavish , McComish .
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen . Compare Thompson .
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