This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dowell Ellis Tydings Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AST.2ACEB/433.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Good question Pat. I think I had just assumed that Charity was documented because I had never seen her given name questioned. I searched my records and could find no such documentation. Then I contacted Fredric Z. Saunders. Here is Rick's reply: "The only place I know that the name of Richard TYDINGS wife is given is in the West River Quaker Monthly Meeting for the marriage of his son who as John TIDINGS 'son of Richard and Charity' married on 16 day, 6 mo. 1705 to Mary ELLIS." Thanks to your question I learned something.