This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cherry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TcI.2ACIB/755.1 Message Board Post: Below is some information I found on the internet about a year ago. This person's opinion was that no one had any official proof that connected the 1st John Cherry in America to anyone in England. My Cherry genealogy including John who married Elizabeth Faithful can be found at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/lgrob/cherry/pafx.htm. It is a compilation of several folk's research and family records. Here's the info I copied from the internet: The link was dead when I found it, but google still had it in in cache. http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:moon.ouhsc.edu/rbonner/myff/d0032/g0000036.html+faithful+cherry&hl=en [8951] John Cherry was the first Cherry ancestor in America arriving in Virginia in 1635. Oliver Spry received 300 acres in Upper Norfolk Co.Virginia for transporting James Hicks, John Longworthy, Thomas Bush, JohnDawson, George Wilcox and John Cherry in June of 1635. [8953] Mrs. Nell (Sachse) Woodard, a professional genealogist, went to England several years ago. She was trying to identify and prove the parents of John Cherry [35] (b. abt 1619 England?). This is the John Cherry who was the first Cherry to set foot on the American Continent. [8954] [8955] Mrs. Woodard ended up proving that neither John Cherry ("TheYounger") nor his father (John Cherry, "The Elder") was the father of the John Cherry [35] who came to Lower Norfolk Co., VA in 1635 with Oliver Sprye. [8956] [8957] We still do not have any proven set of parents in England for John [8958] Cherry [35]. It is my opinion that all those folks doing Cherry research who attach John Cherry [35] (b. abt 1619) to a set of parents in England, simply have made an assumption, with no documentation at all to support the assumption.