York-Sunbury Black Family Names
Courtesy of the Fredericton Region Museum, 2022.
By 1871, there were nearly 250 families who self-identified as “African.” They lived in communities scattered throughout York and Sunbury counties.
These are the family names, many of which remain familiar today.
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Blizzard, Claybourn, Clark, Coy, Debois, Diamond, Eatman, Francis, Gordon, Gosman, Grant, Hammond, Hamilton, Hector, Holmes, Hudlin, Jacques, Jones, Kendall, Lawrence, Leek, Lupee, McCarthy, McMichael, O’Ree, Patterson, Payne, Peters, Saunders, Vaughan, Wallace, Warren, Wheary, Wilson, Winslow, Wise