Orange County Indexed
The Childs surname
The Childs name in Orange County Indexed: 5 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1790 to 1824
most named in the 1790s
- Tax lists 1790
- Deeds 1790–1812
- Records of enslaved people 1812
- Wills 1824
- In the chronology
- 1790 to 1993 2 people in 2 entries, most in the 1790s
- Often named with
- Turner 3
- Spellings to try
- Child
- Search beyond these records
- Childs 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 Childs there)
- Childs 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 2 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.
In the historical records 5 records
2 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 1 tax list entries and 1 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. Search the name in every collection
1790s
1810s
- 1812DeedsSamuel Childs to Josiah Turner, 26 August 1812
- 1812Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Samuel Childs to Josiah Turner, 26 August 1812
1820s
- 1824WillsWill of Frances Childs
