Orange County Indexed

Wilbon marriages

2 marriages in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.

John D Wilbon and Caroline Cooley

Marriage bond, 17 September 1849

Bond dated

17 September 1849

In the books

Orange Marriage Book W-Z, page 455, at the Register of Deeds

Other readings

Ingmire, Holcomb and USGenWeb read the groom as John D. Welbon and the bride as Caroline Coolby

Also in the Recorder

26 September 1849 (an item Mark Chilton notes for this couple; it may concern a later marriage of one of them)

Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60011, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, We–Z”.
The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 447 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).

Marriage bond, 23 April 1856

Bond dated: 23 April 1856
Married: 23 April 1856
In the books: Orange Marriage Book W-Z, pages 456-457, at the Register of Deeds

Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60011, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, We–Z” (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 454 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 Wilbon record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more

Search beyond these records

Wilbon 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 Wilbon there)
Wilbon in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)