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- I am stuck on her ancestry: can anyone help? She is on the Kentucky Mysteries page.
William Thompson died in abt 1792 in Mason Co. without a will; wife and administratrix was named Mary. This may be William Thompson the Rev. War veteran who married Mary Jack.
In the 1799 tax lists for Bracken Co. four Thompson men appear: Ezekiel, Elijah, James, and William. In 1801 George B., Samuel, and Ebenzer also appear. And, several members of a Thompson family are buried at Maple Grove Cemetery in Germantown, Kentucky.
One possiblity for her parents is the couple Sgt. James Thompson and (Nancy) Ann Perry.
Sgt. Thompson was born in Scotland, served in the Revolution in the Maryland Line (he is in the DAR lineage volumes), moved to Virginia, and then to Kentucky. Ann Perry was from Prince George’s Co., Maryland, or Rhode Island. They had 8 children (born in MD or VA) before moving to Bracken Co., KY. Their third child was named Margaret. Since there weren’t likely to be many Margaret Thompsons in Bracken Co. at the time, this makes it possible.
I know that this is out there on the web, but there's a problem here with dates. But the birth dates differ: James and Ann’s Margaret was born on 26-Sept-1772, which obviously differs from the sources about this Margaret. Along with this, James Thompson is in the DAR and SAR databases, but no-one seems to have applied via a daughter Margaret. I’ve simply not seen any primary source information about this couple.
And, note what the following discussion passes on about the Thompsons, a discussion of this Margaret in the context of a grandson (via Maria); this says that this branch of Thompsons were French:
"The Doctor's [i.e., Dr. Elijah Currens Dimmitt] mother was born in Bracken county, the daughter of William and Margaret (Thompson) Currens. William Currens started the tannery just north of the town of Germantown, in Bracken county, ran the business successfully and continued in the same operation until his death, in 1844, at which time Robert P. Dimmitt was in charge as manager and closed up the business. The Thompsons were millers in former generations and French in genealogical descent. They built a number of mills in different states and some members of the family now reside in Indiana." [3, 4]
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1773 - 1833 (60 years)
Burial
English
1767 - 1842 (75 years)
