Margaret Thompson

     Margaret Thompson was born circa 1831 at Ireland.¹ She was the daughter of Colin Thompson and Margaret Rowan. Margaret Thompson married James Bigham, son of Andrew Bigham and Ann Stranaghan, on 16 February 1854 at Drumgath, County Down, Ireland. Margaret Thompson died on 26 July 1910 at Cheltenham, Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania.¹ She was buried on 29 July 1910 at North Cedar Hill Cemetery.¹
     She immigrated to the US, landing at Boston on the ship "Cephalonia" along with her daughter Maggie, then 29 on on 27 November 1887.² She appeared on the census of 1910 at Cheltenham, Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania; Margaret had come to the US in 1887, and had seven children, six still living.³