Orange County Indexed

The Atwater surname

The Atwater name in Orange County Indexed: 142 historical records, 14 people in the chronology and 4 headings in books and archives.

In the records

1780 to 1910 most named in the 1870s

Tax lists 1780
Deeds 1792–1874
Court minutes 1796–1814
Marriages 1797–1910
Records of enslaved people 1816
Wills 1829–1838

In the chronology

1863 to 1984 14 people in 27 entries, most in the 1880s

In books and archives

1 family heading and 3 people, born 1924 to 1933

Places in its deeds and wills

Prices Creek (14), Terrells Creek (10), Cumbo Branch (3), Haw River (3), Wolf Pit Branch (2), Nevills Creek (2), Bryant Strouds Spring Branch (2), Birds Branch (1)

Married into

Stroud 4, Womble 4, Clegg 3, Lloyd 3, Thompson 3, Merritt 3, Alston 2, Andrews 2, Wilson 2, Strowd 2, Moore 2, Bynum 2 · the marriages

Often named with

Strowd 9, Nevill 8, Willis 4, Rigsbee 3, Kittrell 2, Fearrington 2, Stroud 2, Webb 2, Couch 2, Durham 2, Snipes 2

People with a page here

Ann Atwater, Anthony Atwater, Henry Atwater, James Atwater, Matthew Atwater

Spellings to try

Attwater, Aywater

Search beyond these records

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

Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.

In the chronology 14 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

Atwater, Albert 2 entries, 1878–1879
- October 16, 1878: Orange Superior Court convicts three men of the Hendon burglary and sentences them to hang
- May 16, 1879: Three men hanged for a string of Chapel Hill burglaries
Atwater, Ann 1 entry, 1984
- November 14, 1984: Former Klan leader C. P. Ellis tells about 700 people at UNC why he left the Klan
Atwater, Charity 1 entry, 1897
- by June 17, 1897: Charity Atwater leaves Chapel Hill to rejoin a husband taken from her in slavery
Atwater, Esther 1 entry, 1962
- June 1962: Chapel Hill Human Relations Committee asks for a Black nurse on the district health staff
Atwater, Hubert 1 entry, 1940
- January 23, 1940: An eleven-inch snow paralyzes Chapel Hill and closes the schools
Atwater, James 1 entry, 1902
See the entry in the chronology
Atwater, Laura 1 entry, 1928
- March 10, 1928: White Rock Church is organized
Atwater, Luther 1 entry, 1940
- January 23, 1940: An eleven-inch snow paralyzes Chapel Hill and closes the schools
Atwater, Mathew 1 entry, 1870
- May 21-23, 1870: Orange Conservative convention nominates its 1870 county ticket
Atwater, Matthew 14 entries, 1863–1900
See all 14 entries in the chronology
Atwater, Thomas A. 1 entry, 1911
- 1911-1914: J. D. Webb chairs the Orange County board of commissioners
Atwater, Tom 1 entry, 1937
- August 21–22, 1937: Racial violence erupts in western Chapel Hill and Carrboro
Atwater, Wash 1 entry, 1897
- March 15-17, 1897: Wash Atwater gets fifteen years for an assault near Chapel Hill
Atwater, Wilson 1 entry, 1885
- July 31, 1885: Rev. Wilson Atwater dies at his Orange County home

In books and archives 4 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

In the historical records 142 records

54 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 74 marriages, 8 court minutes, 1 tax list entries and 4 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Atwater marriages in full · Search the name in every collection