Orange County Indexed
Wait marriages
3 marriages in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.
William O Fowler and Mary A Wait
Marriage bond, 14 October 1861
- Bond dated
- 14 October 1861
- Married
- 14 October 1861
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book D-F, pages 850-851, 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 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 153 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).
George N Wait and Mary A Jones
Marriage bond, 20 May 1868
- Bond dated
- 20 May 1868
- Married
- 20 May 1868
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book W-Z, pages 45-46, 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 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 435 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).
Wm G Wait and Bettie V Clark
Marriage license, 29 September 1887
- License dated
- 29 September 1887
- In the books
- Orange Marriage Book 6, page 117, 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).
- In all the records
- Every Wait record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more
- Search beyond these records
- Wait 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 Wait there)
- Wait in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
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