Simiar names/same name

We have experienced two startling coincidences in the last fifteen years The later one occurred during the last couple of years. Our principal hobby is our old cars (specifically, for the purpose of this note, our 1927 Delage). Some two years ago we were taking part in an event in the Ardeche (South Eastern France) and one of the spectators came up to me and said that he had a back axle for sale for a Delage similar to ours. We went to look at it and arranged to go back later in the year and collect it in a trailer with our modern car. The vendor’s name was Jean-Yvres Hubert, not all that common a name in France. Last year, a “wreck” of a Delage, also 1927, was for sale in a village near Le Mans, many hundreds of kilometres from the Ardeche. I contacted the owner and agreed a sale. It transpired that his name was also Jean-Yvres Hubert. But he knew absolutely nothing about his name sake in the Ardeche. The other co-incidence occurred when we were stopping in a hotel in Huddersfield (I was then on the University Council). At the time we were living in the Republic of Ireland, County Kildare, in a lovely Georgian House which we rented from the Dutch owners. The name of the house was Cherrymills. At dinner one evening we were chatting with the owners of the hotel and asked how long she had owned the hotel. She mentioned that, after the sale, the previous owners had gone to live in the Republic of Ireland. Obviously we asked where and she said County Kildare and when we pursued the matter she said they had gone to a house called Cherrymills. There is only one Cherrymills in County Kildare. Peter and Janet