Orange County Indexed
The Beard surname
The Beard name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records, 7 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1778 to 1866
most named in the 1840s
- Court minutes 1778
- Marriages 1803–1866
- Deeds 1842–1847
- In the chronology
- 1825 to 1959 7 people in 24 entries, most in the 1950s
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1888
- Married into
- McAdams 1, Murray 1, Cameron 1 · the marriages
- People with a page here
- John Grover Beard, L. E. Beard
- Spellings to try
- Beyard, Beary
- Search beyond these records
- Beard 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 Beard there)
- Beard 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 7 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.
- Beard, Charles A. 2 entries, 1915–1933
- Beard, Gladys Angel 1 entry, 1932
- Beard, Grover 1 entry, 1942
- Beard, John Grover 3 entries, 1931–1940
- Beard, L. E. 15 entries, 1929–1959
- Beard, Mrs. Thomas 1 entry, 1952
- Beard, William H. 1 entry, 1825
In books and archives 1 heading
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 6 records
2 deeds, 3 marriages and 1 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Beard marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1770s
1800s
- 1803MarriagesMarriage bond: Hugh McAdams and Caty Beard
1830s
- 1838MarriagesMarriage bond: Lewis Beard and Philpane Murray
1840s
1860s
- 1866MarriagesMarriage bond: George Beard and Ida Cameron