Orange County Indexed
The Cockburn surname
The Cockburn name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1764 to 1806
most named in the 1800s
- Deeds 1764–1806
- Records of enslaved people 1806
- In the chronology
- 1983 to 1989 1 person in 2 entries
- Often named with
- Grimes 4, Taylor 4, Dixon 2
- Spellings to try
- Cockburne
- Search beyond these records
- Cockburn 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 Cockburn there)
- Cockburn 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 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 the historical records 6 records
3 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people and 1 court minutes, 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
1760s
1800s
- 1806DeedsThomas Grimes & Frederick Cockburn to John Taylor, 6 November 1806
- 1806Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Thomas Grimes, Frederick Cockburn to John Taylor, 6 November 1806
- 1806Records of enslaved peopleSale: Thomas Grimes, Frederick Cockburn to John Taylor, 6 November 1806
