Cumbo (name)
Cumbo is a surname. Some Cumbo families in the United States are of free Black ancestry, descending from Emmanuel Cumbo.[1][2][3]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Laurie Cumbo – American politician (born 1975)
- Marion Cumbo – American cellist
- Clarissa Burton Cumbo – American musician and arts patron (1903–1988)
- Edith Cumbo – American 18th-century free Black woman and entrepreneur
- Mary Cumbo – mother of Henry Berry Lowry
- Hugo Cumbo – Vanuatuan judoka
- Jorge Cumbo – Argentine musician (1942–2021)
- Saviour Cumbo - Maltese theologian
References
- ^ Kearns, Andre (2022). "A Cumbo Family Lineage: Connecting The Dots". Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. 38. Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society: 22–29. ISSN 0272-1937. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- ^ Heinegg, Paul (2021). Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820. Sixth Edition. Vol. I - Families Abel to Drew. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 1. ISBN 9780806359298. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ^ Hashaw, Tim (2006). Children of Perdition. Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. pp. 34–45. ISBN 9780881460742. Retrieved 19 May 2026.