When Bathsheba Thompson was born on 24 June 1707, in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Thompson, was 39 and her mother, Mercy Mansfield, was 40. She married Joseph Grannis in 1728. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 27 January 1761, in East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 53.
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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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