Anne Penelope Thompson

Brief Life History of Anne Penelope

When Anne Penelope Thompson was born on 4 August 1847, in London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Lewis Thompson, was 32 and her mother, Penelope Thompson, was 30. She married James Israel Clark on 11 February 1866, in Clarkston, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1870 and Benson, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 21 November 1932, in Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Madison, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Israel Clark
1842–1909
Anne Penelope Thompson
1847–1932
Marriage: 11 February 1866
James Israel Clark
1867–1935
Joseph Lewis Clark
1869–
Henry Clark
1872–1875
Marion Clark
1874–1895
Annie Penelope Clark
1876–1890
Philemon Clark
1877–1956
Elizabeth Maud Clark
1879–1881
Alfred Edward Clark
1881–1970
Dell Clark
1883–1957
Ida Rose Clark
1885–1963
Glen Clark
1888–1953
LaVaughn Clark
1892–1975

Sources (41)

  • Ann Tompson in household of Patrick Doyle, "United States Census, 1860"
  • England. Birth record for Ann Penelope Thompson - (1847-1932)
  • Annie Clark, "Idaho, Death Certificates, 1911-1937"

World Events (8)

1852 · First Public Lavatory Erected 

George Jenning was the person that invented and gave us the public lavatory. It cost people a penny to use. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

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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Biography of Ann Thompson

Biography of Ann Thompson by Verla Wilkes, great-granddaughter Ann Thompson birth certificate from Somerset House shows birth registration as Ann. 1850 Census in London, England, lists her as Agne …

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