When Nichol Thomson was born in 1792, in Unst, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Walter Thomson, was 39 and his mother, Margaret Peterson, was 38. He married Mary Sinclair on 8 December 1812, in Unst, Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 25 September 1864, in his hometown, at the age of 72.
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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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