When George Vaughn Thompson was born on 30 May 1798, in Elizabethtown, Elizabethtown, Essex, New York, United States, his father, Levi Ozro Thompson, was 33 and his mother, Diadama Vaughan, was 15. He married Lucia Spaulding on 1 January 1822, in Genesee, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 9 November 1863, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
Possible Related NamesSketches Of The Life Of George Vaughn Thompson And Lucia Spalding Thompson by Lucretia King (daughter of Henry King and Mary Ellen Thompson King and great-granddaughter of George Vaughn Thompson) (E …
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