The Burnett surname

In the chronology 11 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.

• Burnett, A. C. 1 entry, 1903
  • week of July 27, 1903: Orange County's Black teachers hold their institute at Hillsborough
• Burnett, Carol 1 entry, 1988
  • September 19, 1988: Neighbors' suit over the Women's Center rezoning is held open for settlement talks
• Burnett, Caroline 1 entry, 1853
  • 1853: Ellington Burnett's grave becomes the earliest dated African American burial in the Chapel Hill graveyard
• Burnett, Cornelius 1 entry, 1853
  • 1853: Ellington Burnett's grave becomes the earliest dated African American burial in the Chapel Hill graveyard
• Burnett, Dallas Sheppherd 1 entry, 1951
  • October 1951: Cedar Grove parents ask for a say in hiring teachers and get a Black building committee
• Burnett, Daniel 4 entries, 1813–1837
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  • 1813–1837: Zedekiah Husbands, from bound boy to master, 1813–1837
  • 3 June 1833: Zedekiah Husbands petitions the Superior Court to stop his nephew Daniel Burnett's binding to John Jones
  • August Term 1834: The court binds Daniel Burnett to his uncle Zedekiah Husbands, a free millwright of color
  • 10 March 1837: John Jones swears the county court had refused to bind Daniel Burnett to Zedekiah Husbands because Husbands was a man of color
• Burnett, Ellington 1 entry, 1853
  • 1853: Ellington Burnett's grave becomes the earliest dated African American burial in the Chapel Hill graveyard
• Burnett, J. C. 1 entry, 1962
  • January 1, 1962: Black churches of Chapel Hill hold their Emancipation Day service
• Burnett, Jinny 1 entry, 1834
  • August Term 1834: The court binds Daniel Burnett to his uncle Zedekiah Husbands, a free millwright of color
• Burnett, Shepherd 3 entries, 1951–1955
  • November 5, 1951: School board accepts the new Cedar Grove school for Black children
  • by November 5, 1953: A Cedar Grove delegation asks the school board for an eighth grade and more classrooms at its Black school
  • May 1955: Roosevelt Warner is named to the advisory committee of Hillsboro's Central school
• Burnett, Timothy 1 entry, 1994
  • November 17, 1994: UNC trustees give Davie Awards to Timothy Burnett and Paul Rizzo

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.

• Burnett, Mary Hairston, 1911-1992 1 work

In the historical records 46 records

6 deeds, 32 marriages, 4 court minutes and 4 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. Burnett marriages in full · Search the name in every collection