Orange County Indexed
The Cooley surname
The Cooley name in Orange County Indexed: 23 historical records, 7 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1764 to 1889
most named in the 1830s
- Deeds 1764–1870
- Marriages 1826–1889
- Wills 1843
- In the chronology
- 1860 to 1966 7 people in 24 entries, most in the 1890s
- In books and archives
- 2 people, born 1794 to 1837
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Hillsborough (6), Churton Street (2), Orange Street (2), Union Street (2), Tryon Street (2), Wake Street (2), New Hope Creek (1), Baptist Church (1)
- Married into
- Chapman 1, Phillips 1, Wilbon 1, Newton 1, Holloway 1, Freeland 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Clancy 3, Jones 2
- People with a page here
- Charles Loveland Cooley, Joseph G. Cooley
- Spellings to try
- Copley, Coley, Cooly, Corley, Cowley, Colley, Colly
- Search beyond these records
- Cooley 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 Cooley there)
- Cooley 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 7 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.
- Cooley, C. S. 2 entries, 1877–1890
- Cooley, Charles Loveland 2 entries, 1860–1861
- Cooley, Charles S. 3 entries, 1869–1895
- Cooley, E. L. 2 entries, 1888–1898
- Cooley, E. S. 2 entries, 1891–1901
- Cooley, Harold 1 entry, 1966
- Cooley, Joseph G. 13 entries, 1871–1894
In books and archives 2 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 23 records
16 deeds, 6 marriages 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. Cooley marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1820s
1830s
- 1830DeedsThomas H Barton to William H Adams trustee & John Cooley, 24 May 1830
- 1831DeedsJohn Cooley to William H Adams trustee & Thomas J Faddis, 20 January 1831
- 1832DeedsCharles L Cooley to Thomas Clancy trustee, 1 November 1832
- 1838DeedsJohn Cooley to Pride Jones trustee, March 1838
- 1839DeedsJohn Cooley to Pride Jones trustee & Thomas Clancy & William Nelson & Cadwallader Jones Jr & Alexander Kirkland, 7 March 1839
- 1839DeedsCharles S Cooley to Thomas Faucett trustee, 24 December 1839
1840s
- 1843MarriagesMarriage bond: Daniel D Phillips and Tasmesia M Cooley
- 1843WillsWill of John Blackwood
- 1849MarriagesMarriage bond: John D Wilbon and Caroline Cooley
