Orange County Indexed
The Brook surname
The Brook name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records.
- In the records
- 1787 to 1818
most named in the 1810s
- Court minutes 1787
- Wills 1812
- Deeds 1818
- Records of enslaved people 1818
- Often named with
- Allen 4
- Spellings to try
- Brooks, Broom, Brock
- Search beyond these records
- Brook 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 Brook there)
- Brook 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 historical records 8 records
2 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 3 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. Search the name in every collection
1780s
1810s
- 1812WillsWill of Andrew Brooks
- 1818DeedsWilliam Brook to Alexander M Allen, 1 October 1818
- 1818DeedsWilliam Brook to Alexander M Allen, 13 October 1818
- 1818Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): William Brook to Alexander M Allen, 1 October 1818
- 1818Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): William Brook to Alexander M Allen, 13 October 1818
