When Martha Thompson was born on 24 October 1703, in Whiston, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Luca Thompson, was 20 and her mother, Martha Bird, was 24. She married Richard Cawthorne on 22 February 1725, in Whiston, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She was buried in Whiston, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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