When John Thompson was born on 7 May 1743, in Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Amos Thompson, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Alling, was 41. He died on 1 July 1747, at the age of 4.
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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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