John Simpson was born in 1890, in Cullybackey, Craigs, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom as the son of Simpson. He married Ethel Georgina SIMPSON on 17 April 1933, in Aghanloo, Limavady, County Londonderry, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 30 August 1963, in Magilligan, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, at the age of 73, and was buried in Tamlaghtard Parish Church Cemetery, Limavady, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
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