Orange County Indexed
Swain marriages
6 marriages in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.
Smith D Atkins and Ella H Swain
Marriage bond, 21 August 1865
- Bond dated
- 21 August 1865
- Married
- 21 August 1865
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book A-B, page 375, at the Register of Deeds
- Other readings
- Ingmire reads the date as 23 August 1865
- In the chronology
- General Smith D. Atkins married Eleanor Swain, daughter of the university president
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60002, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, A–Bra” (the name falls near a reel’s first or last bond; check both).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60001, “Marriage Record, 1851–66, and Marriage Registers, 1867–72”.
- The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 24 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).
Robert Johnston and Sarah Swain
Marriage bond, 29 April 1867
- Bond dated
- 29 April 1867
- Married
- 29 April 1867
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book I-L, page 253, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60006, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Ja–Lyons” (the name falls near a reel’s first or last bond; check both).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60001, “Marriage Record, 1851–66, and Marriage Registers, 1867–72”.
- The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 226 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 Swain and Laura Ragland
Marriage license, 14 June 1883
- License dated
- 14 June 1883
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book 5, page 219, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 62002, “Marriage Licenses, 1879–1891”.
- Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
Adolphus Swain and Emma Jenkins
Marriage license, 22 October 1891
- License dated
- 22 October 1891
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book 6, page 497, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 62002, “Marriage Licenses, 1879–1891”.
- Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
Edward S Swain and Lula Johnson
Marriage license, 18 January 1898
- License dated
- 18 January 1898
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book 8, page 95, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 62003, “Marriage Licenses, 1892–1903”.
- Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
Henry Lewis Swain and Ara Ada Hall
Marriage license, 26 May 1903
- License dated
- 26 May 1903
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book 9, page 88, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 62003, “Marriage Licenses, 1892–1903”.
- Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
- In all the records
- Every Swain record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more
- Search beyond these records
- Swain 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 Swain there)
- Swain in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
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