Orange County Indexed
Downs marriages
2 marriages in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.
Bartlit Allen and Mary Downs
Marriage bond, 9 September 1785
- Bond dated
- 9 September 1785
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book A-B, page 98, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60002, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, A–Bra”.
- The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 13 on FamilySearch, or the one before or after it: the bondsman and witness are there.
- Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
William Downs and Polly Tilley
Marriage bond, 3 February 1794
- Bond dated
- 3 February 1794
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book D-F, page 315, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60004, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Con–Gw”.
- The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 130 on FamilySearch, or the one before or after it: the bondsman and witness are there.
- Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
- In all the records
- Every Downs record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more
- Search beyond these records
- Downs in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Downs there)
- Downs in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
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