Emma Margaret Thompson was born in 1868. She married Frank Evans Merry on 10 April 1893, in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 12 May 1913, in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, at the age of 45, and was buried in Linwood Cemetery, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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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.
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