Skip to content
Orange County Public Library (opens the library’s website in a new tab)

Orange County Indexed

The Beckum surname

The Beckum name in Orange County Indexed: 10 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.

In the records
1803 to 1841 most named in the 1810s
  • Wills 1803
  • Deeds 1806–1818
  • Marriages 1813–1841
In the chronology
1846 1 person in 1 entry
Places in its deeds and wills
Stinking Quarter Creek (2), Great Alamance Creek (1), Rock Creek (1)
Married into
Alexander 1, Rose 1, Freeman 1, Livens 1, Linens 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Robertson 3, Cook 2
Spellings to try
Buckum, Beckam, Beckhum
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 1 person

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 10 records

2 deeds, 5 marriages, 2 court minutes and 1 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. Beckum marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

1800s

1810s

1830s

1840s

Undated

Other surnames beginning with B · All surnames · People

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026