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Orange County Indexed

John Woods and Fanny Lockhard, marriage registration, 1866

Husband
John Woods
Wife
Fanny Lockhard
Married
21 July 1867
Record
Orange County Freedmen's Marriage Book (cohabitation register), 1866, page 275

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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