Your question caught my eye because I have a Greenberry in the Maryland 
family.  So I googled Greenberry and found Nicholas Greenberry on Wikipedia. 
If Wikipedia is right, Nicholas Greenberry was a prominent man in early 
Maryland.

I also have Marene's in my family, presumably in honor of Marene Duvall, 
another prominent early Marylander.  Also a Joshua Barney, of obvious 
tribute.

Apparently it was a common naming practice, and is still done occasionally 
today.

Sally Phillips

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sharon Peery" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:04 AM
Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Greenberrys


I have a terribly insignificant question here.

I keep running into men born in Virginia and Maryland in the
early 19th century with the first name "Greenberry."  Does anyone know where 
that name came from?  None of them I've
looked at seems to have the Greenberry surname in the pedi-
gree.

And while I'm asking, how about "Covington"?  And "John Nelson"?  There is a 
raft of "John Nelson So-and-So"'s in the
part of southern Ohio mostly settled by Virginians in the same
time period.
                                 Sharon Peery
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