When Mary Frances Thompson was born in 1845, in Bilbrough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Childers Henry Thompson, was 32 and her mother, Frances Mary Hacket, was 28. She lived in Holy Trinity Micklegate, York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871.
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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