STORY OF THE THOMPSONS PART 3 10mins-Desktop.m4v

Following the Battle of Culloden (1746) and with the English forces victorious over the Scottish highlanders, the MacTavish (Son of Thomas) Clan rushed to Anglicise their name to 'Thompson' or 'Thomson' to avoid the brutal persecution of highlanders by the English. As Jim Thompson explains in this Third Part of the video series, his ancestors, like many others, decided to flee to Northern Ireland.

Researched & Filmed by Australians, Jim & Tom Thompson, in Scotland & Ireland.

UPDATED 2012
NOTE: Jim Thompson is constantly adding to the research conducted for this project and if you wish to know more about this branch of the Thompson family he is willing to answer your questions through the comment pages on You Tube.