This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dowty, Rodney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2JB.2ACE/313.3.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hello! Thanks very much for passing this along. I had no idea that Hannah, wife of Martin Rodney, had a daughter. This sure is interesting that her daughter married a Dowty because her granddaughter, Polly Rodney (daughter of Thomas), also married a Dowty. Did the deed happen to have the surname of SMITH as Hannah's maiden name? I have read that Hannah was married to someone before Martin Rodney, that she was a widow at the time of her 2nd marriage. So I have been a bit confused as to whether the SMITH surname was Hannah's maiden name or the surname from her 1st marriage. Since her son, Thomas (who is my ancestor), has Smith for his middle name it would seem that Smith would have been Hannah's maiden name, but I am not sure. I have even wondered if Thomas may have been from her first marriage and if that is the case it changes my ancestry. If you find out anymore about any of this I sure would appreciate you passing it along to me. Thanks again!