When Moses Thompson was born on 9 May 1852, in Perry, Illinois, United States, his father, Jeptha Matthew Thompson, was 36 and his mother, Cyntha Murphy, was 29. He died on 17 May 1853, in Perry, Illinois, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Nine Mile Cemetery, Sunfield, Perry, Illinois, United States.
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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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