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If Joseph BOSLEY's wife was a GREENBERRY, then she would had to have come directly from England. Nicholas GREENBERRY went from England to MD in 1674. Nicholas had one son (Charles) and three daughters. Charles died with no surviving children, so at that time GREENBERRY as a surname became extinct in America into at least the 1800s.
Surnames were often passed down as given names for many generations, as you list in your own line in that Ruth had both a brother and child with the given name Greenberry.
While Joseph BOSLEY's wife could have been a GREENBERRY and gone directly from England to MD (with no male relatives), I would consider that a remote possibility.
The two more likely possibilities are:
1. His wife Ann was descended from one of Nicholas GREENBERRY's daughters, through their marriages to RIDGELY, HOWARD, HAMMOND, and GOLDSBOROUGH. See my page at:
http://home.netcom.com/~fzsaund/greenberry.html
If that is the case, you would benefit from studying those families to see if any had a connection to BOSLEY.
2. The second possibility is that there is no GREENBERRY ancestry. GREENBERRY was used as a given name among families not descended from him. This happened in two wasys. First, because of his promincence in MD, naming children Greenberry was a smaller scale local version of people 100+ years later naming children Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, etc. The second way it happened was children naming a child after a non-blood relative, who was a blood-descendant of Nicholas GREENBERRY through one of his 3 daughters.
I am a descendant of Nicholas GREENBERRY, and in descendants of that line Greenberry was used a given name well into the 1800s, 150 years after he died. I also have another line in which Greenberry was often used as given name for several generations, that is NOT a descendant of him. In this case, the name entered my line when the couple (my ancestors) named a child Greenberry after the husband's sister's son named Greenberry. In other words, the Greenberry in my line was named after his cousin named Greenberry, who was a few years older. As for how my ancestor's sister happened to name a son Greenberry, it is because her husband had a brother named Greenberry. So, you can see the indirect way that Greenberry got started as a given name in my line, and it continued for a number of generations.
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