Orange County Indexed
The Cannon surname
The Cannon name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records and 6 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1763 to 1818
most named in the 1810s
- Deeds 1763–1818
- Court minutes 1810
- Marriages 1813
- In the chronology
- 1939 to 1992 6 people in 14 entries, most in the 1980s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Stony Creek (2), Haw River (1)
- Married into
- Rainy 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Garrison 2, Boswell 2, Hall 2
- Search beyond these records
- Cannon 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 Cannon there)
- Cannon 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 6 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.
- Cannon, Mrs. Charles 1 entry, 1950
- Cannon, Jeffrey 2 entries, 1990–1992
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Cannon, Robert 5 entries, 1972–1990
Show the 5 entries
- 1972–1992: Pressing UNC to hire Black faculty, 1972–1992
- by September 11, 1984: A survey finds 4.1 percent of UNC's faculty is Black, nearly three times the average
- September 1989: UNC's affirmative action office counts 42 Black faculty members, down from 50 in 1984
- August 22, 1989: Officer Keith Edwards, the University police's only Black woman officer, files an affirmative action complaint over hiring
- March 26, 1990: James Meredith calls affirmative action a white liberal tool at the Carolina Symposium
- Cannon, Robert J. 2 entries, 1970–1984
- Cannon, Sue 1 entry, 1974
- Cannon, Y. Z. 3 entries, 1939–1961
In the historical records 6 records
3 deeds, 1 marriages and 2 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Cannon marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
