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The place-name 'Sunbury' is first attested in one of the many Anglo-Saxon charters, one of c. 960 to 962, where it appears as Sunnanbyrg. Another charter of 962 lists it as Sunnanbyrig . Sunbury appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Sunneberie .
Burrers traced the name Sunbury to a document called "Sunbury Charter" and found the "Saxons were, in fact, the true founders of Sunbury. We know this through a remarkably informative Saxon document known as the "Sunbury Charter," by which King Edgar (959-980) granted to his faithful kinsman Sunna "in perpetuity, a certain parcel of land ...
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sunbury on Thames like this: SUNBURY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Staines district, Middlesex.
Sunbury was first settled in 1836, by George Evans and William Jackson. It was Jackson and his brother, Samuel, who named the township Sunbury, after Sunbury-on-Thames, in Middlesex, England when it was established in 1857. The Post Office opened on 13 January 1858.
Sunbury traces its roots back to the 18th century when it was established in 1772. It owes its name to the English city of Sunbury-on-Thames, paying homage to one of its early settlers, Isaac Banneker, who hailed from that area.
Of these Green Street was known as Sunbury Lane in 1722, while French Street was called by its present name in 1799. A track between them, which formed the boundary between Sunbury and Kempton manors, ran roughly along the line of the modern road called the Avenue and continued northwards to Feltham. Farther west the Upper Halliford Road and ...
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When the Loyalist came in 1783, they were granted land in Parr Town, Sunbury County. This was actually what became Saint John City about one year later, when New Brunswick became a separate province, and the eight original Counties were set off.
