Sophia Thompson was born in 1833, in St Stephen, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. She married Isaac Killam Sr. in 1898, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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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