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Orange County Indexed

John Taylor and Julia Bagbey, marriage registration, 1866

Husband
John Taylor
Wife
Julia Bagbey
Married
4 April 1867
Record
Orange County Freedmen's Marriage Book (cohabitation register), 1866, page 276

A marriage entered in the Freedmen’s Marriage Book.

The names of both partners also link to a search of the earlier records, but a matching first name is not proof that a record names the same person.

Source

  • Mark Chilton, Jumped the Broom (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2022), his transcription of the Orange County Freedmen’s Marriage Book.
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