Orange County Indexed
The Chamness surname
The Chamness name in Orange County Indexed: 13 historical records.
- In the records
- 1753 to 1846
most named in the 1750s
- Court minutes 1753
- Wills 1760–1795
- Deeds 1765–1801
- Marriages 1846
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Cane Creek (1)
- Married into
- Hinshaw 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Kemp 3, Cox 3, Dixon 2, Mayner 2, Davis 2, Marshall 2, Marshal 2, Maynor 2
- Spellings to try
- Chambers, Chambless, Chamney, Chamnes, Chamless, Chames
- Search beyond these records
- Chamness 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 Chamness there)
- Chamness 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 historical records 13 records
5 deeds, 1 marriages, 5 court minutes 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. Chamness marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
1760s
- 1760WillsWill of Henry Maynor
- 1765DeedsHenry McCulloch to Richard Chamness, August 1765
1790s
- 1795WillsWill of Alexander McCracken
1800s
1840s
- 1846MarriagesMarriage bond: Robt Hinshaw and Abigail Chamness
Undated
- DeedsAnthony Chamness [& wife Sarah] to Richard Kemp, September 1752
- DeedsAnthony Chamness to Richard Cox, September 1752
- DeedsAnthony Chamness to Betty Mayner, August 1759
- Court minutesWill of Henry Mayner, proved by Charles Davis and John Pyke.
- Court minutesAnthony Chamness and John Marshal submitted Henry Maynor’s inventory.
- Court minutesDeed, Peter Stout, Benjamin Piggott, David Vestal & John Piggott to Solomon Dixon & Joshua Chamness Trustees &c, proved by Daniel Freeman.
