Orange County Indexed
The Burwell surname
The Burwell name in Orange County Indexed: 5 historical records, 9 people in the chronology and 4 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1848 to 1862
most named in the 1850s
- Deeds 1848–1862
- Marriages 1854
- In the chronology
- 1815 to 1862 9 people in 27 entries, most in the 1830s
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading and 3 people, born 1802 to 1838
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Hillsborough (4), Churton Street (4), Union Street (4), Orange Street (2), Hillsborough Presbyterian Church (1)
- Married into
- Strudwick 1 · the marriages
- People with a page here
- Frances Armistead Burwell, Margaret Anna Burwell, Robert Armistead Burwell
- Spellings to try
- Barwell
- Search beyond these records
- Burwell 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 Burwell there)
- Burwell 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 9 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.
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Burwell, Anna 9 entries, 1835–1856
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- 1835: Elizabeth Hobbs is brought to Hillsborough in the household of Robert and Anna Burwell
- About 1836: Schoolmaster William J. Bingham repeatedly beats Elizabeth Hobbs at Anna Burwell's urging
- 1837–1857: The Burwell School and the Burwell household
- July 1837: Anna Burwell opens a school for girls in Hillsborough
- April 10, 1838: Elizabeth Hobbs writes to her mother from Hillsborough
- 1845–1851: The Caldwell Institute at Hillsborough, 1845–1851
- April 5, 1846: Smallpox at the Turner house sends students out of town
- March 27, 1855: Aunt Fariby saves Jane from burning
- February 8, 1856: The Burwells resolve to sell their cook Hannah
- Burwell, Anna Robertson 1 entry, 1856
- Burwell, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1838
- Burwell, Frances Armistead 2 entries, 1838–1856
- Burwell, Margaret Anna 13 entries, 1835–1857
- Burwell, Mary Susan 1 entry, 1854
- Burwell, Molly 1 entry, 1848
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Burwell, Robert 11 entries, 1815–1862
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- 1815–1837: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church, 1815–1837
- May 10, 1834: Six enslaved women are baptized into Hillsborough Presbyterian Church
- 1835: Elizabeth Hobbs is brought to Hillsborough in the household of Robert and Anna Burwell
- 1835: Robert Burwell becomes pastor of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church
- About 1836: Schoolmaster William J. Bingham repeatedly beats Elizabeth Hobbs at Anna Burwell's urging
- July 1837: Anna Burwell opens a school for girls in Hillsborough
- July 3, 1841: The Hillsborough Debating Society leads the town's Independence Day celebration
- January 20, 1842: Hillsborough Literary Association forms with Dennis Heartt as secretary
- February 9, 1846: Mitchell asks the Burwells to sell his wife Mary Ann with him
- January 21, 1847: The Orange Volunteers leave Hillsborough for the Mexican War
- November 1862: The Collins family buys the former Burwell School and calls it the Beehive
- Burwell, Robert Armistead 19 entries, 1815–1862
In books and archives 4 headings
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.
- Burwell family family, 1 work
- Burwell, Margaret Anna Robertson, 1810-1871 26 works
- Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856 17 works
- Burwell, Robert Armistead, 1802-1895 3 works
In the historical records 5 records
4 deeds and 1 marriages, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Burwell marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
