John Thompson of Connecticut

Family 2. He is sometimes referred to "senior.". But he had no son "John," that would be his nephew John Thompson, son of Anthony. Who was called "the mariner" to keep him separate from the younger of the two John Thompson "the farmers," who were in fact Sr / Jr father / son.

So we'll call him

John Thompson, of New Haven

We don't know his parents but we do know his brothers, William Thompson, of New Haven & Anthony Thompson, of New Haven

And when his wife isn't confused with the wives of John the farmer's, we know her as Ellen Thompson daughter of Richard Harrison of Branford & Margaret Harrison

Her brother Ens. Thomas Harrison married John the farmer's widow Dorothy Harrison

Wisely this John had no son John, and 5 daughters, a couple of nice sons in law.

Here's what I have so far:

#1. John Thomspon m1 ____, m2 Alice Freeman
John Tompson

He, the two wives, and all the children are taken care of, except for daughter Mary. That's a complicated issue that I will bring up with you next week.

Somehow, John Thompson the husband of Mary Cooke (dau of Francis the Mayflower passenger) got attached as son of John and ___. I severed that connection, and put in the correct son John, who was born 1611, and nothing else known of him.

#2 John Thompson "of New Haven" m Ellen Harrison and had two bros, Anthony and William
John Thompson, of New Haven

John Thompson, d 14 Dex 1674, m 25 Feb 1650 Ellen Harrison (who d 8 Apr 1690), dau of Richard
Children:
1. Mary 24 Apr 1652 m Nov 1674 Samuel Lines; m2 John Hitchcock, m3 18 Apr 1717 Samuel Clark
2. Anna/Hannah b 22 Sep 1654, d 26 Oct 1718, m 25 Dec 1673 Abraham Bradley
3. Eliz, b 3 Jun 1657, d 3 Nov 1718, m 29 Oct 1677, Benjamin Bradley
4. Lydia, b 13 Mary 1664
5. Sarah, b 25 Mary 1667, d 1669

He and his wife are in good shape. Most, but not all the children are correct on Geni, and Mary is missing -- I'll put that on my to-do list for next week, too.

#3 John Thompson ("of Stratford") m Mirable ____
John Thompson, of Stratford

He and his wife look in good shape, haven't checked children carefully yet

#5 John Thompson c 1656, m Dorothy _____, then Dorothy m2 Thomas Harrison.
This is John Thompson "The Farmer"

John "The Farmer" Thompson

On Geni he is listed has having two wives, Dorothy and Eleanor
I can't do anything because I don't have rights to Dorothy, and it's in the middle of a merge. Could you merge all three -- i.e., merge Dorothy, Dorothy, and Eleanor into one person called Dorothy _____.

So, I haven't done anything with #5 yet.

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So, now I've lost #4. What was his URL, or was he one of the above?

That's where I am for now, but I think I might be off-line for about 48 hours now. (I'll check in from time to time, but won't have time to do much work at all).

Let me know what you think?

*Sigh*
I wish I knew if any of those John Thompson were my ancestors......
Stupid brick wall....
*sigh*

:). Chances are you're from yet another mess of John Thompson's down Maryland / Virginia way.

I have 3 (maybe 4) Thompson lines -- 2 of them are affected here: Rev. John Thompson has gone from being my GGF to the 1st husband of Alice Freeman, who has suddenly become my 2nd cousin 12X, instead of my GGM. I wouldn't mind so much, except these relationship changes have been happening to me all day & it's getting a bit frustrating!

Also, Lt. John's surname is usually spelled Tomson (husband of Mary Cooke).

Well if you run into a George Henry Thompson born in 1784 in St Mary's County Maryland, be sure to let me know. He could really use some brothers and sisters, and a set of parents. ;)

Thompsons are difficult. There are way too many of them!

Linda wrote: "I wouldn't mind so much, except these relationship changes have been happening to me all day & it's getting a bit frustrating!"

Sorry, that is difficult! But, hopefully, you'll be comforted by the fact that last week those relationships were demonstrably wrong, and now, after all the corrections, we think it's correct!

Linda Wellman after a tree correction you may need to re establish a relationship. The single best way to do this is walk the tree, profile by profile, inspecting for the correctness at each link. There's a "cache refresh" PROs can do also - it presents as an icon, two arrows chasing each other, IF it's needed. After the changed Sholom & I did I was careful to ask for the refresh, but that may not have affected your path "down the tree.". Eventually the server does update, but i highly recommend the "walk the tree" method.