[4][5] Historian William Francis Ganong noted that the name predated the parish's erection, appearing in 1801 in the Land Memorials.

[6] Wakefield was erected in 1803 within York County from unassigned lands north of Woodstock and Northampton Parishes.

[7] It included Simonds and Wilmot Parishes, along with parts of Bright, Brighton, Northampton, Peel, Richmond, Southampton, Wicklow, and Woodstock Parishes as well as part of Maine claimed by New Brunswick.

[7] In 1830 all of Wakefield east of the channel of the Saint John River was erected as Brighton Parish.

In 1850 the boundary within the Saint John River was altered, making all islands in front of Wakefield part of the parish.

[13] In 1854 the southern boundary of Wakefield was extended across the Meduxnekeag to include parts of two grants that straddled the river.

Lakeville included a single land grant in Wakefield Parish, located on the western side Route 560, north of the prolongation of the Estey Road.