When Grace Eileen Thompson was born on 28 November 1914, in Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles Thomas Thompson, was 37 and her mother, Mary Ann Davis Cheshire, was 39. She married Ernest Francis Brookman on 15 April 1939, in Croydon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 17 May 1995, in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 80.
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WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
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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