When George L Thompson was born in 1816, in Pendleton, Virginia, United States, his father, William John Thompson Jr, was 30 and his mother, Annis Walker, was 21. He married Eliza Jane Hartman on 25 May 1840, in Pendleton, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Northfield, Richmond, New York, United States in 1855 and Franklin, Pendleton, West Virginia, United States in 1870. He died on 18 October 1886, in Pendleton, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 70.
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English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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