This is a resurrection of the Thompson One Name Study pages that I ran a few years ago at www.geocities.com/athens/2249, no longer in existence . Most significantly, I am now able to make available all records that I have collected over the years in the form of a database which can be searched by anyone. This database is accessible on this site in its entirety.

Visitors to the Thompson One Name Study site can enter additional records, so that, after checking, I can add them to the main database. These records are available for viewing. Thompson / Thomson (and variations) data from all over the world is most welcome.

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The Thompson One Name Study database contains approaching 30,000 records, mostly from the North East of England, United Kingdom, but there are other UK records and there are some, but few, records from other parts of the world including the United States and Australia.

The accuracy of any of the records cannot be guaranteed and I would always recommend that you check them against the original source information, if you can.

To improve the legibility of the records, particularly Census Records and Monument / Memorial Inscriptions, formatting has been introduced with boldings, italics and line breaks.

Michael Thompson

It must be understood that this collection even for the North East of England is far from complete.

For information on the distribution of Thompsons and Thomsons, go to the Origins page.

Parish records include in chronological order births, baptisms, banns, marriages, deaths, burials. But there are lots of other types of records including Census Records, snippets from Newspapers, etc.

My enormous thanks go to Newcastle upon Tyne City Library within whose shelves, a very large percentage of the records on this site were recovered.

Thanks also to Monkwearmouth Library, and to other libraries throughout the UK who provide a valuable service to the community.

The Julian Calendar was changed in 1752 to the Gregorian Calendar. Pre-Gregorian Calendar records can cause confusion because the years ran from 25 March to 24 March. For this reason, the normal convention is to mark any record prior to 1752 from 1 January to 24 March with the two years e.g. 1723/4. The database records use a slightly different convention of only naming the first year from 25 March to 31 December and the second year from 1 January to 24 March i.e. 1724 in this example, so that they are maintained in chronological order. Computers do not understand the normal convention!