When Mary Thompson was born on 25 March 1732, in Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Captain John Thompson, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Thomas, was 24.
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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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