Different parts of the Thompson genealogy will be shown here from time to time. 

for a full genealogy, to add information, or to ask questions contact nelsmott@yahoo.com .  Shown below is the first generation of Henry Thompson’s descendants as well as a photo of two of today’s living descendants.

Standing below a portrait of their great-great-great-great grandfather are F. Gurney Thompson Jr. with his wife Jeanne and Gough Winn Thompson III and his wife, Tone.

HENRY THOMPSON was born June 23, 1774 in Sheffield, England.  He immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland where he arrived on May 2, 1794.   He married Ann Lux Bowly on March 29, 1798 in Baltimore.  He died at age 63 on August 24, 1837 in Baltimore.  These were his children (underlined) and grandchildren:

DANIEL BOWLY THOMPSON was born December 20, 1798 at 13 Gay Street in Baltimore, where his parents lived at the time.  As a young man he went to New Orleans to work on the sugar plantation that was owned in part by his father.  Bowly, as he was generally called, died on August 27, 1830 near English Turn, a section of the Mississippi River in Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana.  He never married.

GEN. HENRY ANTHONY THOMPSON was born August 13, 1800 at the Thompson residence at 13 Gay Street in Baltimore. He graduated from West Point in 1819 and had a career in the military and as a banker.  On June 13, 1827 he married Zelina Julia de Macklot in Burlington, New Jersey.  He died at age 79 at March 12, 1880 and is buried in Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore.

    The children of Henry Anthony and Zelina Thompson were:

ANN ZELINA THOMPSON born April 23, 1828; HENRY FENWICK THOMPSON born January 15, 1830; MACKLOT THOMPSON born December 1, 1831;

CAPT. CHARLES GRATIOT THOMPSON born June 28, 1833; EMILIE ELIZABETH THOMPSON born December 25, 1835; WINFIELD SCOTT THOMPSON born May 25, 1838; DANIEL BOWLY THOMPSON born June 4, 1840; JOHN WILLIAM THOMPSON born September 27, 1842; JULIA THERESE THOMPSON born July 7, 1845 ; BERTHOLD THOMPSON born November 28, 1847; VIRGINIA WALLACE THOMPSON born October 13, 1850; EUSTIS THOMPSON  born September 6, 1853.

JOHN WILLIAM THOMPSON was born April 13, 1802 at “Clifton” in Baltimore. He graduated from St.Mary’s College.  He died on July 20, 1833  and was buried in Greenmount Cemetery.

SAMUEL TOWNLEY THOMPSON was born September 17, 1804 at “Clifton” in Baltimore.  He was the president of the Baltimore Insurance Company. On February 11, 1834 he married Sarah Caroline Sears Sterett in Christ Church, Baltimore.  He died at age 60 on January 7, 1865 in Baltimore and is buried in Greenmount Cemetery.

The children of Samuel and Sarah Thompson were:JOHN WILLIAM THOMPSON born about 1835; REBECCA STERETT  THOMPSON born June 14, 1836; ANN BOWLY born December 30, 1838;  MARY CARROLL born March 18, 1840;  AUGUSTA TEMPLE born Septembr 22, 1841;  HARRIET STERETT born November 20, 1843;  EMILIE ELIZABETH born January 6, 1846.

JAMES ALFRED THOMPSON  was born January 7, 1807 at Clifton in Baltimore.  He

died July 8, 1808 at Clifton.  He was one year old and was buried at Old St. Paul’s.

CHARLES ANDREW THOMPSON was born January 3, 1808 at Clifton in Baltimore.  He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy  in 1822 and was appointed a midshipman on February 20, 1830.  He then spent his time at sea and died on September 21, 1834 in Key West, Florida at the age of 26.

DAVID HARRIS THOMPSON was born December 16, 1810 at Clifton in Baltimore. He became a dry goods merchant.  He died at the age of 60 on April 27, 1871 in Baltimore.  He was buried in Greenmount Cemetery.

OCTAVUS THOMPSON was born March 9, 1813 t Clifton in Baltimore.  He married Therese Vronia Catlin  in about 1845.  He was a clerk and farmer.  In 1850 he lived in Portsmouth, Saginaw County, Michigan.  In 1857 he was a Justice of the Peace and in 1856 he was elected Town Supervisor in Thomastown, Michigan.  He died in about 1877 in Saginaw, Michigan

The children of Octavus and Therese Thompson were: DANIEL FITZHUGH THOMPSON born in 1846; HENRY BOWLY THOMPSON born in 1848; ELIZA CATLIN THOMPSON born in 1852; SAMUEL TOWNLEY THOMPSON born June 22, 1855;  ANN FRANCES THOMPSON born in about 1856;ISRAEL CATLIN THOMPSON born in April, 1858; ZELINA WANDA THOMPSON born in May, 1860; OCTAVUS THOMPSON, JR born in June, 1862.

NANCY BOWLY THOMPSON was born March 15, 1815 at Clifton in Baltimore.  She married Napoleon Bonaparte Hughes on Aril 13, 1815 in St. Paul’s Church in Baltimore.  The 1860 census shows her with her husband and sons in Quincy, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She died on February 12, 1900 at her son Dr. Henry Hughes’ home in Long Branch, New Jersey.

The children of Nancy and Napoleon Hughes were: SAMUEL HUGHES born in 1844; DR. HENRY HUGHES born July 15, 1845; FANNY BOWLY HUGHES born October 5, 1848;

JAMES BENJAMIN THOMPSON was born June 18, 1817 at Clifton in Baltimore,Maryland.  He died at age 20 on October 13, 1837 in Baltimore.  He was buried at Christ Church, Baltimore.

ELIZABETH THOMPSON was born December 17, 1818 at Clifton in Baltimore.  She died at age 3 on October 4, 1822 at Clifton.  She was buried at Old St. Paul’s in Baltimore.