Forebearance

Landmark dates: Mark Thompson, formerly of the BBC and New York Times created his Ancestry account on 3rd August 2020. Two day later, Bloomberg was the first to report that private equity group Blackstone had taken over Ancestry. On Friday, Mark was announced as Ancestry's new chairman. 

I managed to divert the tradingaswdr research team from their favourite lockdown websites for half an hour. Their verdict: "His tree isn't very big and he's coy about himself". 

His father, Duncan John Thompson Thompson was born in 1916 and died 1986. His paternal grandfather, John Thompson Thompson was born 1889 in Lancashire, and married Sara (or Sarah) Fraser in 1913 at Preston.  He died 1937.  It's not clear who started this "Thompson Thompson" thing; it may have been the  so far unidentified great grandfather who simply didn't understand the form at the Registrars. 

His mother, Sydney Columba Corduff, was born Ballinamore, County Leitrim in 1917, and died in 2002. Her father, James, was in the Royal Irish Constabulary, notable for his prolific arrest of drunks at Ballyshannon in 1902. He was badly injured when he fell off his bike in icy conditions in January 1931.