I am looking for other people with the last name of Cherry who claim that they are not related to other Cherry

Question

My great great grandfather was an O'Connell and after he disappeared and my great great grandmother remarried she remarried a Cherry but every person I have ever met with the last name of Cherry say the same thing as I say they aren't related to the other Cherrys I have never had the chance to ask why they aren't so I am asking now.

I understand what you are saying but what I am asking is who is a Cherry not related to other Cherrys. You see unlike other last names Cherry seems to come with a disclaimer "Yes my last name's Cherry but I'm not related to the other Cherrys." All over the US and in other countries they say it before you can ask or before they ask me even because I do it to. I don't say the same thing about my married name (picture with user ID is husbands avatar) and most people don't say that when they are stating their last name to someone. It is odd distictly so other wise I would not ask the question. The thing I didn't say before is that my great great grandfather was very possibly a smuggler off the coast of Florida and the family has wondered if the man my g g grandmother married was actually my g g grandfather returned after hiding out with a different name. There is a town in Tx along the coast that has something to do with smuggling back in the day and a lot of Cherrys there.

Answer 1

I have the same problem with my Boyd family. It seems that everyone in Scotland had the last name Boyd or at least it seems that way. And no none of them are related. Who knows the reason it just is. It makes research difficult at best. I don't think anyone can ever explain why people with the same name aren't related. It's just a fact and rather it makes sense or not its the way it is.

Answer 2

Simple, and something I post here frequently...
Everyone with the same last name is NOT necessarily related. I'd have to guess that perhaps there are 2 (or more) distinct lines of Cherry families. Maybe one came to the US in 1679 from England, the other came in 1850 from Ireland. Persons who are real familiar with this fact, will probably get to the point where they identify as being from one line or the other.
Thus, when people tend to post "do you know any Cherries?", or "is my Cherry in your database?", it is needle in the haystack time, and real unproductive. NOT TRYING to be hostile to anyone at all. Pretty quickly in the process, people understand this, and start asking "I am looking for James Cherry, who married Jane Peach, and lived in Kentucky in 1895". NOW, people have some facts to hang their hat on. And the Cherries who married Lemons in Nova Scotia, can smile and go on to the next question. Or have fun and make some pie. (yeah, in a off beat mood tonight, all meant in good fun)