When William Langdon Thompson was born on 3 January 1818, in Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Abraham Thompson, was 30 and his mother, Catherine Shearer, was 23. He married Rachel F Slone in 1846. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pine Grove Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. He died on 19 June 1888, in Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Russell, Pine Grove Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, 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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