Orange County Indexed
Townsend marriages
4 marriages in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.
Joseph Townsend and Heather Dixon
Marriage bond, 19 August 1786
- Bond dated
- 19 August 1786
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book S-V, page 1127, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60010, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Te–Wa”.
- The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 423 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).
Joshua Townsend and Polly Reaves
Marriage bond, 6 May 1817
- Bond dated
- 6 May 1817
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book S-V, page 1126, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60010, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Te–Wa”.
- The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 424 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).
John Townsend and Beletha Oakley
Marriage bond, 19 August 1826
- Bond dated
- 19 August 1826
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book S-V, page 1128, at the Register of Deeds
- Also written
- The groom also as John Yownsend, in the other listing of this marriage
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60010, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Te–Wa”.
- The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 423 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).
Prince Allen and Martha A Townsend
Marriage license, 7 January 1875
- License dated
- 7 January 1875
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book 2, page 478, at the Register of Deeds
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60003, “Marriage Licenses (16 mm), 1866–1875”.
- Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
- In all the records
- Every Townsend record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more
- Search beyond these records
- Townsend 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 Townsend there)
- Townsend in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
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