Bridget Thompson

Notes

• Her brother was Sir Francis Fleming, Master of Ordnance to Edw. Vl (Burke's).
• Malcolm, 3rd Lord Fleming (d. 1547), is discussed in *Scots Peerage*, ed.Paul, vol. VIII [1911], pp. 537-542. No daughter named Bridget, no daughter who married a Thom(p)son. (William Addams Reitwiesner)
• not to be confused with (apparently fictional) Bridget Fleming

Links

• Descendants of Malcolm FLEMING, Earl of Wigton
• http://www.house-empire.com/images/KingJamesIVtopresent.pdf
• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/THOMPSON/1999-08/0934...
• Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 2 By John Burke Page 1389
• The Thom(p)son Conundrum

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The Bridget Fleming who married Richard Thompson was daughter of John, sister of Francis, and not Scottish.

comments

From http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fleming-147

Citizen of Ancestralia.

Sir Malcolm Fleming is supposed to have had 6 daughters, no Bridget.

I believe this Bridget appeared in a faked-up published pedigree for an American Thomson family. The Richard Thompson who married the real Bridget Fleming was then confused with a different Richard, to move the Fleming connection to a different line of Thompsons, and so on.