Brief Life History of James
When James Thompson I was born on 16 March 1700, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, his father, Peter Thompson I, was 45 and his mother, Bessie Adam, was 38. He married Agnes Findlay on 31 May 1721. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He died in 1748, in Augusta, Hampshire, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 48.
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- Legacy NFS Source: James Thomson - Published information: birth: about 1700; Rockbridge, Virginia, United States
- Legacy NFS Source: James Thomson - Church record: death: about 1748; Rockbridge, Botetourt, Virginia, United States
- James Thomson in entry for John Thomson, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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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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