Orange County Indexed
The Cairns surname
The Cairns name in Orange County Indexed: 2 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1779 to 1782
most named in the 1770s
- Tax lists 1779
- Court minutes 1782
- In the chronology
- 1993 to 1994 1 person in 2 entries
- Spellings to try
- Cains, Cairnes
- Search beyond these records
- Cairns 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 Cairns there)
- Cairns 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 2 records
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. Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Cairns Alexr
1780s
- 1782Court minutesDeed, Alexander Cairns to Charles White, proved by Wm. Williams.
