Birth Name: Justin Tokimitsu Nozuka
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 29, 1988
Ethnicity:
*father – Japanese
*mother – English, as well as distant Dutch, Scottish, and German
Justin Nozuka is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actor.
He is the son of Holly Sedgwick Stern and Hiromitsu Nozuka. His father is Japanese. His mother was raised in Canada, the daughter of American parents, Henry Dwight Sedgwick V and Helen Phillips Burroughs, who were both of New England WASP ancestry.
Justin is the brother of George Nozuka, an R&B singer, Philip Nozuka, an actor, and Henry Nozuka, a musician. His uncle is American jazz guitarist Mike Stern, who is his mother’s brother, and his aunt is actress Kyra Sedgwick, who is his mother’s half-sister.
Both of Justin’s maternal grandparents remarried to Jewish spouses. Justin’s grandfather’s re-marriage to Patricia Rosenwald produced Kyra, and Justin’s grandmother’s re-marriage to Philip Maurice Stern, an author, philanthropist, and Rockefeller fellow, resulted in his uncle Mike and mother’s name change to Stern.
Justin’s maternal grandfather is Henry Dwight Sedgwick V (the son of Robert Minturn Sedgwick and Helen Peabody). Henry was born in Massachusetts, and is from a prominent family that has lived in New England since the 1600s. He is of English, and distant Dutch, Scottish, and German, descent. Robert was the son of Henry Dwight Sedgwick III and Sarah Mary/May Minturn. Helen was the daughter of The Rev. Endicott Peabody, a minister, and of Fanny/Frances Peabody, who were born with the same surname.
Justin’s maternal grandmother was Helen Phillips Burroughs (the daughter of Robert Phillips Burroughs and Dorothy Hall Wellman). Helen was born in New Hampshire. Robert was a prominent lumber executive, and was the son of Sherman Everett Burroughs and Helen Sophie Phillips. Dorothy was the daughter of James Albert Wellman and Florence Vincent.
Sources: Partial genealogy of Justin’s mother (through her half-sister, Kyra Sedgwick) – http://famouskin.com
Marriage record of Justin’s maternal grandparents, Henry Dwight Sedgwick V and Helen Phillips Burroughs – https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogies of Justin’s maternal grandfather, Henry Dwight Sedgwick V – http://www.geni.com
https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Justin’s maternal great-grandparents, Robert Phillips Burroughs and Dorothy Hall Wellman – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Justin’s maternal great-grandfather, Robert Phillips Burroughs – https://www.nytimes.com
Genealogical information about Justin’s maternal great-great-aunt, Wellman, Harriet V. (the sister of Justin’s maternal great-grandmother, Dorothy Hall Wellman) – https://www.nhhistory.org
Genealogy of Justin’s maternal step-grandfather, Philip Maurice Stern – https://www.geni.com