Who are his parents? Due to a merge, he had two sets of parents. I disconnected him from Henry Thompson and Dorothy Thompson (Honywood) on January 24, 2016 [Hatte Blejer]. Please respond to the discussion with any evidence for parents.

Disconnected as son of John Thompson & Terry Bransford

From The Cogswells in America, page xv:

Rev. William Thompson, Mrs. Cogswell's father, was the Vicar of Westbury Parish, Wiltshire, for twenty years, from 1603 to his death in 1623. His wife, Mrs. Phillis Thompson, died in 1608. The Westbury Register records her burial thus: "Phillis, uxor of Mr. William Thompson, Vicar, Sepult. 19 July, 1608." Of this marriage were Elizabeth, who married John Cogswell, Maria, who was baptized in 1604, and other children, as mention is made in his will of five daughters. After the death of Mrs. Cogswell's mother, her father married Elizabeth ____, who survived him. Of the second marriage were two sons: William, who was baptized April 23, 1615, and Samuel, whose baptism is thus recorded in the Westbury Register: "1616, Samuell, filius Willmi. Thompsonn, Vicarie de Westburie, baptizat Novemb. 30."

Samuel Thompson, Mrs. Cogswell's youngest brother, became the Rev. Samuel Thompson, D.D., of London. His son, William Thompson, lived with his uncle, John Cogswell, for many years in Ipswich, Mass. Vid. p. 12.

Ancestry of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Author of The Scarlet Letter. <FamousKin.com>

Reverend William Thompson is seen as a son of Dorothy Thompson & Henry Thompson, but his parents are unknown.

• William Thompson (1576-1623)
• Elizabeth Thompson (1594-1676)
• Abigail Cogswell (1626-1728)
• Elizabeth Clarke (1668-1712)
• Thomas Lord (1703-1753)
• Miriam Lord (1748-1826)
• Elizabeth Clarke Manning (1780-1849)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)