When Margaret Jane Thompson was born on 31 July 1894, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, her father, John Thompson, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Hannigan, was 23. She married Robert Walter Thompson about 1925, in County Tyrone, Ireland. She lived in Cappagh, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1901. She died on 24 September 1975, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, at the age of 81, and was buried in Cappagh, County Tyrone, Ireland.
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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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