When Martha Thompson was born about 1768, her father, Charles William Thompson, was 50 and her mother, Rachael Coleman, was 38. She married John Baytop Scott on 17 September 1785, in Halifax, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died in September 1817, in Scottsburg, Halifax, Virginia, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Scottsburg, Halifax, Virginia, 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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