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Orange County Indexed

The Claytor surname

The Claytor name in Orange County Indexed: 35 historical records and 10 people in the chronology.

In the records
1782 to 1895 most named in the 1820s
  • Court minutes 1782
  • Deeds 1816–1868
  • Marriages 1819–1895
  • Records of enslaved people 1830–1839
  • Wills 1845
In the chronology
1795 to 1964 10 people in 74 entries, most in the 1940s
Places in its deeds and wills
Eno River (12), Little River (2), Bolin Creek (2), Stony Branch (1), New Hope Creek (1), New Hope Meeting House (1)
Married into
Cabe 1, Holden 1, Wilkerson 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Webb 4, Piper 3, Nelson 3, Turner 3, Woods 3, Scarlett 2, McCown 2, Cabe 2
People with a page here
R. H. Claytor
Spellings to try
Clayton, Clayter
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 10 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 35 records

21 deeds, 7 records of enslaved people, 3 marriages, 3 court minutes 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. Claytor marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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