Download or read book The Thompsons and Related Families written by and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thompson Family The Thompson family originally hails from Scotland. The earliest known ancestor is Thomas Thompson, who was born in 1545 in Glasgow. Matthew Thompson (1692-1753) emigrated from County Donegal, Ireland to Philadelphia, in 1732. He then moved to Virginia in 1741. The Thompsons were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.