THOMPSON FAMILY GENEALOGY
(version 1/27/12)
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1. Nathaniel Thompson, was born in England, probably London sometime in the mid 1700s; and married Margaret Maw on Sept. 2, 1784 at St. Dunstan Church in the Stepney borough of London. He was a member of the London stock exchange, and he was probably reasonably wealthy.

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   Thomas Thompson (1785-1865), was born Aug. 19, 1785 in London and baptized Sept. 25, 1785 at St. Sepulchre Church in the City of London. He married his first wife Elizabeth Pinkney on June 4, 1808 in Islington, London, and his second wife Charlotte Margaret Noel on Jan. 1, 1831. He became quite wealthy and was well-known for his philanthropic efforts. He was also a very prominent member of the British Foreign Bible Society. However, he is most remembered for being the father of the hymnist Jemima Luke. He died Dec. 8, 1865 at Prior Park in Bath, and the Rev. Charles Chapman on the Sunday of Dec. 17 following Thomas Thompson's death dedicated a sermon to him at the Percy Chapel in Prior Park - the topic of the sermon being "Christian Living and Christian Dying". Another sermon that day dedicated to "Uncle Thomas" was by W.S. Edwards in the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel where he spoke on "Fruits in Old Age".

   Ann Thompson (1787-1863), was born July 11, 1787 in London, and baptized Aug. 5, 1787 at St. Sepulchre Church in the City of London.

   Nathaniel Thompson (b. 1788), was born Dec. 24, 1788 in London, and baptized Jan. 18, 1789 at St. Sepulchre Church in the City of London. He must have died before the 1791 birth of the second Nathaniel.

   William Thompson (b. 1790), was born May 1, 1790 in London, and baptized April 11, 1790 at St. Sepulchre Church in the City of London. He must have died before the 1794 birth of the second William.

   Nathaniel Thompson (b. 1791), was born Nov. 16, 1791 in London, and baptized Dec. 11, 1791 at St. Sepulchre Church in the City of London.

   Margaret Thompson (b. 1793), was born March 19, 1793 in London, and baptized April 14, 1793 at St. Sepulchre Church in the City of London.

   William Thompson (b. 1794), was born July 13, 1794 in London, and baptized July 20, 1794 at St. Sepulchre Church in the City of London.

   James Thompson (b. 1796), was born Feb. 22 in London, and baptized March 20, 1796 at St. Sepulchre Church in the City of London.

   Frederick Elijah Thompson (1797-1849), was born Oct. 4, 1797, and baptized Oct. 29, 1797 at St. Sepulchre Church in the City of London. He married Mary Ann Springall on Nov. 23, 1819 at St. Marylebone, London, and died Aug. 17, 1849 in the City of London.

   Sophia Thompson (b. 1799), was born Jan. 23, 1799 in London, and baptized Feb. 17, 1799 at the St. Mary Church in Islington, London.

   Edward Thompson (b. 1804), was born May 21. 1804 in London and baptized June 16, 1804 at the St. Mary Church in Islington, London.

   Henry Thompson (b. 1805), was born May 19, 1805 in London, and baptized June 11, 1805 at the St. Mary Church in Islington, London.

   Theophilus Thompson (1807-1860) who follows:

    

2. Theophilus Thompson (1807-1860), the son of Nathaniel Thompson and Margaret Maw, was born Sept. 27, 1807 in Islington, London, and baptized at St. Mary Church in the same borough. He married Elizabeth Anna Maria Wathen on Jan. 25, 1831 at St. Pancras Church in Camden, London in a marriage that was most likely arranged by her father Nathaniel Wathen, and by Theophilus' older brother Thomas, both of whom were prominent members of the British Foreign Bible Society. Theophilus became one of the best known physicians in London, and died at the age of 53 in Sutton, Surrey on August 11, 1860. He was buried six days later in the Norwood Cemetery in Lambeth, London, which is where his wife and father-in-law are also buried. A photograph of him, which is also shown here, hangs in the British National Portrait Gallery.

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   Theophilus Wathen Thompson (1832-1905) who follows:

   Elizabeth Gertrude Thompson (1833-1904), was born Dec. 26, 1833 in London, and baptized April 30, 1834 at St. George Church in the Bloomsbury parish of Camden, London. She married John Kempthorne on Jan. 4, 1860, and died in 1904.

   Arthur Steinkopf Thompson (b. 1835), was born Dec. 27, 1835 in London, and baptized Feb. 29, 1836 at the St. George Church in the Bloomsbury parish of Camden, London. He married Ellen Jameson on June 15, 1875.

   Edmund Symes Thompson (1837-1906), was born Nov. 16, 1837 in London, and baptized March 25, 1838 at All Saints Church in the Edmonton Parish of Camden, London. He followed his father's calling and became a very well-known London physician. He married Elizabeth Watkins on Jul. 25, 1872, and died Nov. 24, 1906 at Cavendish Square in London. After his death, his wife wrote a biography on him title 'Memories of Edmound Symes-Thompson.

   Constance Mary Thompson (1841-1924), was born Oct. 29, 1841 in London, and baptized Jan. 5, 1842 at the St. George Church in the Bloomsbury parish of Camden, London. She married the Rev. Robert Cholmeley (b. 1818) on Jan. 9, 1866 in St. Marylebone, London. They probably did not have any children. Robert died Aug. 30, 1880 in Thakeham, Sussex, and Constance died in 1924 at St. Pancras in London.

    

3. Theophilus Wathen Thompson (1832-1905), the son of Theophilus Thompson and Elizabeth Anna Maria Wathen, was born May 22, 1832 in London and baptized Aug. 9, 1831 at St. George's Church in the Bloomsbury parish of Camden, London. He was admitted Nov. 15, 1841 at the age of 9 to St. Pauls School, a preparatory school in Prior Park, Bath that his Uncle Thomas Thompson was associated with. After his graduation from St. Pauls in 1848, he went on to King's College in London, where he probably studied law, as he ultimately became a law clerk, then a solicitor. The biography of his brother Edmund Symes-Thompson, portrays Theophilus as being fairly athletic, and there is an inscribed trophy still owned by the family that commemorates a bicycle race he won. He married Maria Elizabeth Abbott on Oct. 21 1857 in Bath, Avon, Somerset, and they had several children, all of whom were born in London. Part of the time that he was active in his law career, his residence was at Bedford Park in the Chiswick borough of London, and during his residence there he was friends with the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). He must have been quite successful in his law practice, as he retired in 1876 at the age of 44, after which we find him living in Acton in west London. He died May 24, 1905 in the Brentford borough of London.

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   Paul Ernest Thompson (b. 1859), was born March 4, 1959 in London, and baptized April 27, 1859 at St. George Church in the Bloomsbury Parish of Camden, London. He appears to have died before the 1871 census was taken.

   Claude Edmund Thompson (1860-1924), was born April 4, 1860 probably in Wandsworth, Surrey. He married Florence Lloyd Unwin on March 10, 1892 at St. Mary the Virgin Church in the Norwood Green Parish of Ealing, London. He died Nov. 27, 1924.

   Alan W. Thompson (b. c.1862), was born about 1862, probably in Wandsworth, Surrey. He married Ada Summers on March 1885 in Rockhampton, Queensland. Alan and Ada had several children and appear to have traveled all over the world, before emigrating to the United States. They were in Haverhill, Massachusettts during the 1900 US Census, when he listed his occupation as an insurance salesman, but by the 1910 census they had moved to Niagara Falls in New York, and they were still there 20 years later.

   Ethel Louisa Thompson (1863-1947), was born March 3, 1863 in Wimbledon, Surrey and baptized March 16, 1863 at Saint Luke Church in the Marylebone parish of Westminster in central London. She never married and died in 1947.

   Theophilus Oswald Thompson (b. c.1865), was born in London, and baptized March 15, 1865 at the Holy Trinity Church in the Upper Tooting parish of Wandsworth, Surrey. He appears to have died sometime before the taking of the 1871 UK census.

   Maud Anna Maria Thompson (c.1866-1948), who follows:

   Arthur Wathen Thompson (b. c.1869), was born in Surrey, England and baptized June 25, 1869 in the Saint Anne parish of Wandsworth, Surrey. He listed his occupation as an insurance salesman during the 1891 UK Census. He served in the imperial yeomanry and was discharged with 1½ years of service. He renlisted after WWI broke out in the Royal Army Service Corp on Sept. 29, 1914 and served until Oct. 22, 1914.

   Constance Emily Thompson (1871-1919), was born on March 13, 1871 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England; and married John Sayer Crawley (1867-1948), an aspiring actor who had also spent time as an officer in the British army. His nickname within the family was Rawdon, after the character in the novel 'Vanity Fair'. Constance became a very well-known Shakespearean actress, acting in Europe, South Africa and the United States, but she was especially famous in California. She eventually moved to Los Angeles, and starred in a few largely forgotten silent movies, whereas her husband John, from who she informally separated, moved to New York and made his mark on Broadway under the stage name of Sayer Crawley. Constance died March 17, 1919 in Los Angeles, and John remarried several years after her death. Obituaries of both Constance and Sayer Crawley were published in the New York Times. Interestingly, his obituary makes no mention of the fact that he had once been married to the famous Constance Crawley. They had one daughter, Vere Crawley (1893-1918), who settled in Los Angeles with her mother, acted in at least one play, and died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. Constance and Vere are buried in the same plot in Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles.

   Cecil Abbott Thompson (b. c.1875), was born in London and baptized April 4, 1875 at St. Peters Church in the Streatham parish of Lambeth, London.

    

4. Maud Anna Maria Thompson (c.1866-1948), the daughter of Theophilus Wathen Thompson and Maria Elizabeth Abbott, was baptized on Nov. 14, 1866 in the Holy Trinity Church in the Upper Tooting Parish of Wandsworth, Surrey near London. She came from a well-to-do family, and married the painter Herbert Sidney Percy on Oct. 22, 1891 at the St. Michael and All Angels Church in the Bedford Park parish of Chiswick, London, Herbert being the son of the celebrated Victorian landscape artist Sidney Richard Percy. Maud and Herbert lived in a large house at 29 Sycamore Gardens (formerly Avenue) in Hammersmith, London, and Herbert was successful enough in his career that they had servants. Herbert died in 1932, but he left Maud secure financially with investments that he had made.

   When the Germans bombed London during the 1940 and 1941 Blitz of World War II, Maud was living in the Sycamore Gardens house alone with her servants, and bombs are said to have landed near the house. Maud's daughter Sidney remembers that when she visited her mother after the war in 1946, the house was full of soot from the bombings, her mother was senile, and the servants had stolen many of the things in the house of value. Sidney's original intent had been to bring her mother back to the United States, but she decided that Maud was too frail to travel, so she put her in a Derbyshire nursing home and returned to the States alone. Maud's sister-in-law Amy Reynolds, and her nephew Kenneth Reynolds, looked in on Maud from time to time in these final years.

   Maud died at the Gate House in Wirksworth (Belper Registration District), Derbyshire on Nov. 14, 1948. The Gate House is a historic three-story Georgian building that presumably was being used as a nursing home. Maud was buried on Nov. 19 next to her husband Herbert in the Hammersmith Borough Cemetery (Mortlake) in London. Please see the Percy Genealogy for the children of Maude and Herbert.

    

    

REFERENCES:

1. UK Census Records, 1841-1901 and Parish Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records: online databases available on Ancestry.com and Familysearch.org.

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