When Lionel Stanley Thompson was born on 25 November 1918, in Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, William Anthony Thompson, was 23 and his mother, Matilda Adelaide Acker Gregory, was 16. He had at least 1 daughter with Helen Geraldine Stevens. He died on 9 April 2007, in his hometown, at the age of 88, and was buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, 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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