The Carden surname

In the records

1755 to 1910 most named in the 1870s

• Tax lists 1755
• Court minutes 1788–1818
• Deeds 1788–1874
• Marriages 1798–1910
• Records of enslaved people 1802–1841
• Wills 1819

In the chronology

1881 1 person in 1 entry

Places in its deeds and wills

Eno River (6), Ellerbe Creek (6), Haw Creek (5), Mill Creek (5), Haw River (4), New Hope Creek (2), Mebane (1), Little River (1)

Married into

Rice 3, James 3, Brown 2, Crowder 2, Laycock 2, Lynch 2, Cheek 2, Thompson 2, McAdams 2, Woods 2, Crabtree 2, Watson 2 · the marriages

Often named with

Whitaker 6, Carrington 5, Brown 4, Sutton 3, Hancock 2, Johnston 2, John 2, Link 2, Enoch 2

Spellings to try

Cardin

Search beyond these records

• Carden 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 Carden there)
• Carden 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.