When Charles H. Thompson was born on 21 January 1837, in Paris, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States, his father, James Colley Thompson, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Colley, was 28. He married Hannah Elizabeth Ramsdell on 6 November 1859, in Gray, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1850 and Maine, United States in 1870. He died on 3 August 1907, in Gray, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Gray, Cumberland, Maine, United States.
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 .
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