“…"Sara/Sarah" is prevalent in the early records, with 13 entries, and the name may predate any English presence on that coast, as in the case of Sarah Shunnock (1757-1867), purported to be 110 years old at her death. 54 Being a Biblical Christian name, "Sara(h)" has its roots in either Iberian, French, or English sources. Since the name predates an English presence and no other "French" names are present in the records perhaps because of animosities with French nationals, 55 One of the Basque gravestones at Placentia, Newfoundland, located on the seventeenth-century route to southern Labrador and a major port of entry for Basques to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 56 bears the name of "Ioannes Sara"; both these names are present in the Inuit records.…”