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The Ball surname

The Ball name in Orange County Indexed: 83 historical records and 3 people in the chronology.

In the records
1766 to 1910 most named in the 1790s
  • Court minutes 1766–1795
  • Tax lists 1779–1790
  • Marriages 1790–1910
  • Deeds 1793–1873
  • Wills 1801–1836
  • Records of enslaved people 1846–1850
In the chronology
1880 to 1944 3 people in 3 entries, most in the 1880s
Places in its deeds and wills
Flat River (5), Little River (3), Collins Creek (3), Eno River (2), Mountain Creek (2), Buck Quarter Creek (2), Martin Creek (1), Durham (1)
Married into
Tilly 3, Harris 2, Cates 2, Jones 1, Edwards 1, Cate 1, Jeffers 1, Brinkley 1, Riggs 1, Ray 1, Woodrough 1, Jackson 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Smith 3, Graham 2, Cole 2, Kirk 2, Stanford 2, Cate 2, Milliken 2, Edwards 2
Spellings to try
Bal
Search beyond these records

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 3 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.

In the historical records 83 records

21 deeds, 3 records of enslaved people, 19 marriages, 34 court minutes, 3 tax list entries and 3 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. Ball marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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