When William Thompson was born on 12 January 1836, in Markham Village, York, Home, Upper Canada, British North America, his father, William G Thompson, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth MacAulay, was 31. He married Elisa Johanne Funk on 27 December 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Haldimand, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 22 October 1913, in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Richmond City Cemetery, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States.
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EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Mary Ellen Allsop BIRTH 22 Feb 1856 DEATH 15 Oct 1858 (aged 2) BURIAL Richmond City Cemetery Richmond, Cache County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 59246365
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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