The Cheshire surname

In the chronology 9 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.

• Cheshire, James W. 2 entries, 1937
  • by August 20, 1937: Hillsboro's Confederate Memorial Library receives $1,000 for a furnace
  • by July 30, 1937: The state lends a book truck to the Orange County Library Association for August
• Cheshire, James Webb 3 entries, 1848–1936
  • 1848: James Webb Jr. and his wife buy Over-the-River from the Norwoods and enlarge it
  • September 12, 1918: A War Savings rally in Hillsborough welcomes home wounded volunteer Jim Cheshire
  • 1936: Mr. and Mrs. James Webb Cheshire buy Over-the-River
• Cheshire, Joseph Blount 4 entries, 1879–1924
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• Cheshire, Joseph Blount, Jr. 15 entries, 1868–1932
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• Cheshire, Lucius 16 entries, 1928–1993
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  • 1971–1980: Students win and keep the vote in Orange County, 1971–1980
  • October 20, 1953: Samuel M. Gattis becomes county accountant and tax supervisor
  • 1965: Lucius and Nellie Cheshire buy and restore the Commandant's House
  • by May 15, 1968: The county board chairman withdraws the Ridgewood trailer park's building permit
  • 1972–1984: Flora Garrett, Richard Whitted and the county board, 1972–1984
  • December 2, 1974: Orange County commissioners dismiss county attorney Lucius Cheshire and hire a new firm
  • late 1975: Conservative Democrats organize the Orange Committee
  • by March 11, 1977: The Northern Orange NAACP opposes the Orange Committee's student-voter purge
  • February 15, 1977: The Orange Committee asks the county commissioners to back its challenge to student voters
  • by November 15, 1977: The Orange County Bar Association endorses Gordon Battle for a Superior Court judgeship
  • March 30, 1977: The State Board of Elections upholds Orange County's registration of student voters
  • April 7, 1978: A Superior Court jury orders Hillsborough Mayor Fred Cates to pay damages for an illegal arrest
  • 1979–1989: Town elections and bond votes, 1979–1989
  • November 3, 1981: Lucius Cheshire is elected mayor of Hillsborough
  • by April 10, 1984: Hillsborough Democrat Lucius Cheshire chairs Jesse Helms's re-election campaign in Orange County
  • February 21, 1993: About 500 people rally in Hillsborough against PHE Inc.'s planned move to the town
• Cheshire, Lucius M. 2 entries, 1956–1960
  • July 2, 1956: Irving Carlyle attacks the Pearsall school plan at a Chapel Hill forum
  • April 1960: W. C. George and Lucius Cheshire are named Orange County managers of I. Beverly Lake's campaign
• Cheshire, Lucius M., Jr. 4 entries, 1979–1983
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  • 1979–1989: Town elections and bond votes, 1979–1989
  • November 14, 1983: Hillsborough Mayor Lucius Cheshire Jr. resigns at a town board meeting
  • October 7, 1983: Candidate filing closes for the 1983 municipal elections with Mayor Joe Nassif unopposed
  • November 8, 1983: Frank Sheffield defeats Mayor Lucius Cheshire Jr. in the Hillsborough election
• Cheshire, Nellie 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965: Lucius and Nellie Cheshire buy and restore the Commandant's House
• Cheshire, Sarah 1 entry, 1917
  • June 1, 1917: Hillsborough residents meet at the Session House library to organize a Red Cross chapter

In books and archives 1 heading

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.

• Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1850-1932 4 works

In the historical records 1 record

1 marriages, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Cheshire marriages in full · Search the name in every collection