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Orange County Indexed

The Cave surname

The Cave name in Orange County Indexed: 18 historical records, 1 person in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1823 to 1896 most named in the 1820s
  • Marriages 1823–1896
  • Deeds 1827–1839
  • Records of enslaved people 1827–1847
  • Wills 1827–1866
In the chronology
1827 to 1869 1 person in 2 entries, most in the 1820s
In books and archives
1 family heading and 1 person, born 1760
Places in its deeds and wills
Chapel Hill (4), Hillsboro (1), Hillsborough (1)
Married into
Barbee 1, Cameron 1, Steward 1, Guthrie 1, Ward 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Barbee 5, Sparrow 2
People with a page here
Benjamin Cave
Search beyond these records

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 books and archives 2 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.

In the historical records 18 records

6 deeds, 5 records of enslaved people, 5 marriages and 2 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. Cave marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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