When Mary Thompson was born in March 1880, in Tarrant, Texas, United States, her father, Samuel Houston Thompson, was 34 and her mother, Mary Ann Stephens, was 32. She lived in Justice Precinct 3, Hamilton, Texas, United States in 1880. She died before 1881, in Tarrant, Texas, 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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