Orange County Indexed
The Callahan surname
The Callahan name in Orange County Indexed: 7 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1764 to 1774
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1764–1769
- Wills 1774
- In the chronology
- 1944 to 1994 2 people in 14 entries, most in the 1990s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Mebane (2), Eno River (1)
- Often named with
- Mebane 2, Cox 2
- Spellings to try
- Callaway, Calahan
- Search beyond these records
- Callahan 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 Callahan there)
- Callahan 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 2 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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Callahan, Ben 13 entries, 1971–1994
Show the 13 entries
- 1971–1992: Carrboro's town government, 1971–1992
- 1989: Chapel Hill and Carrboro police count more assaults and thefts in 1989
- February 28, 1991: A downtown Carrboro shop owner says he will close, citing poor evening police protection
- October 21, 1992: Ben Callahan is named Carrboro police chief
- March 24, 1992: Carrboro aldermen reject a ban on panhandling
- April 1, 1992: Sid Herje retires as Carrboro police chief and Ben Callahan becomes interim chief
- by October 29, 1993: Carrboro aldermen appoint a citizens' committee to study gun control
- September 28, 1993: Carrboro aldermen approve a contract for town police to work UNC special events
- November 15, 1993: Carrboro's new gun-control study committee holds its first meeting
- night of March 27-28, 1993: Chapel Hill police stop two Black men at gunpoint because they matched a robbery description
- by October 12, 1993: Carrboro residents form Citizens for a Safe Carrboro
- February 13-14, 1994: Carrboro aldermen make the Town Hall space shortage a priority and order a study
- February 10, 1994: Carrboro police enlist cable company workers in a crime watch
- Callahan, Nelson 1 entry, 1944
In the historical records 7 records
4 deeds, 2 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
1760s
1770s
- 1774WillsWill of Nathaniel Harris
