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The Cole surname

The Cole name in Orange County Indexed: 395 historical records, 31 people in the chronology and 7 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1779 to 1911 most named in the 1870s
  • Tax lists 1779–1790
  • Deeds 1782–1874
  • Marriages 1784–1911
  • Court minutes 1786–1818
  • Wills 1786–1889
  • Records of enslaved people 1793–1863
In the chronology
1787 to 1992 31 people in 50 entries, most in the 1890s
In books and archives
1 family heading and 6 people, born 1795 to 1903
Places in its deeds and wills
Eno River (35), Buck Quarter Creek (10), Hillsborough (8), Little River (7), New Hope Creek (6), New Hope (5), Haw River (5), Pea Creek (3)
Married into
Brown 4, Strayhorn 4, Doherty 3, Wilson 3, Jackson 3, Latta 3, Weaver 3, Riley 3, Johnson 3, Roach 3, Browning 2, Johnston 2 · the marriages
Often named with
Albright 5, Allen 5, Webb 4, Patterson 4, Woods 4, Latta 4, Long 4, Carrington 4, Whitted 3, Wilkins 3, Ming 3, Whitaker 3
People with a page here
James C. (James Carney) Cole, Lois Eva Virginia Jones Cole, Mary Catharine Cole, Reuben Cole, W. C. Cole
Spellings to try
Colee
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 31 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 books and archives 7 headings

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.

In the historical records 395 records

113 deeds, 9 records of enslaved people, 156 marriages, 95 court minutes, 4 tax list entries and 18 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. Cole marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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