Henry Thomson

Not the same as unknown Thompson

Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Lenham', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (Canterbury, 1798), pp. 415-445. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol5/pp415-445 [accessed 7 May 2022].

Sir Robert Honywood, on his death, devised the manor of Royton to Dorothy, his daughter by his first wife, married to Mr. Henry Thomson, the second son of Mr. Tho. Thomson, of Sandwich, and younger brother of T. Thomson, esq. of Kenfield, in PeTham, who afterwards resided at Royton, bearing for his arms, Gules, two bars argent, a chief ermine, a crescent for difference. (fn. 8) His surviving son Anthony, was of Royton, of which he died possessed in 1682, leaving an only daughter Dorothy, who carried it in marriage to Richard Crispe, gent. of Maidstone, in whose descendants it continued down to William Crispe, gent. of Royton, who died in 1761 …

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Inscription

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96799796/henry-thompson

Here under lye the bodyes of Henry / Thompson and Dorathy [sic.] his Wife of Royton / Chappell in this parish. Hee was sonne / and coheire of Thomas Thompson of / Sandwich Marchant and shee eldest / daughter of Robert Honywood of Pett / in Charing Esq. /
They had issue 5 sonns and 3 daughters /
1 Robert 5 Elizabeth
2 Marye 6 Peter
3 Judith 7 Anthony
4 John 8 Charles
Living piously together sixty three / yeares and being [illegible] full of dayes / cheerefully resigned his Soule [illegible]/
the hands of the Almighty [illegible] / Hee being aged 78/
Shee aged 77 yeares.

Disproved descendants

• Ancestry of General Tom Thumb - Dwarf Circus Performer < famouskin.com>Anthony Thompson and his two brothers William and John are often said to be sons of Henry Thompson and Dorothy Hony of Lenham, County Kent, England. This claim has since been refuted.
• Ancestry of Nathaniel Hawthorne - Author of The Scarlet Letter. <FamousKin.com> Reverend William Thompson is seen as a son of Dorothy Thompson & Henry Thomson, but his parents are unknown.

www.findagrave.com

Henry Thompson
BIRTH 1570
England
DEATH 1648 (aged 77–78)
Lenham, Maidstone Borough, Kent, England
BURIAL
St Mary Churchyard
Lenham, Maidstone Borough, Kent, England
MEMORIAL ID 96799796

Inscription
Here under lye the bodyes of Henry / Thompson and Dorathy [sic.] his Wife of Royton / Chappell in this parish. Hee was sonne / and coheire of Thomas Thompson of / Sandwich Marchant and shee eldest / daughter of Robert Honywood of Pett / in Charing Esq. /
They had issue 5 sonns and 3 daughters /
1 Robert 5 Elizabeth
2 Marye 6 Peter
3 Judith 7 Anthony
4 John 8 Charles
Living piously together sixty three / yeares and being [illegible] full of dayes / cheerefully resigned his Soule [illegible]/
the hands of the Almighty [illegible] / Hee being aged 78/
Shee aged 77 yeares.
Gravesite Details
According to a Find A Grave contributor (correspondence of 20.11.2012), Henry was born in 1659, but this does not accord with the inscription on the memorial.

Family Members
Spouse
Dorathy Swann Thompson
1572–1649 (m. 1586)

Children
Robert Thompson
1594–1642
Anthony Thompson
1614–1648

• Date of birth has also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1549.