Brief Life History of Olive
When Olive Thompson was born on 19 April 1763, in Bellingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Peter Thompson, was 25 and her mother, Bethiah Thayer, was 20. She married John Gould on 10 October 1782, in Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters.
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- Olive Thompson, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Olive Thompson, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Olive Thompson, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
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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