Lucy Margaret Palin was born in 1895 in Wells, Somerset to
Richard Palin and Agnes Mary Coles. Before
she was two years old the family emigrated to Ontario and the next child, Ethel
Emily was born in Collingwood, Ontario in 1867.
Lucy Margaret was raised in Collingwood and had two sisters
and two brothers. In 1878 her father
died. Her mother continued to raise the
children in Collingwood and in 1889, Lucy Margaret married Frederick Harold
Thompson, a coal and wood merchant.
