Orange County Indexed
The Bray surname
The Bray name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1890
most named in the 1760s
- Tax lists 1755
- Deeds 1758–1837
- Marriages 1882–1890
- In the chronology
- 1943 1 person in 1 entry
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Loves Creek (1), Rock Creek (1)
- Married into
- Battle 1, Hester 1 · the marriages
- Search beyond these records
- Bray 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 Bray there)
- Bray 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 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 12 records
8 deeds, 2 marriages, 1 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Bray marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: Edward Bray
- 1758DeedsWilliam Leaky to Edward Bray, June 1758
- 1758DeedsEdward Bray to David Vestal, June 1758
1760s
1830s
1880s
- 1882MarriagesMarriage license: Jordan Bray and Margaret Battle
1890s
- 1890MarriagesMarriage license: Johnson Bray and Mollie Hester
