Orange County Indexed
The Craige surname
The Craige name in Orange County Indexed: 7 historical records and 4 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1779 to 1874
most named in the 1860s
- Deeds 1779–1874
- Wills 1785
- Marriages 1867
- In the chronology
- 1740 to 1987 4 people in 12 entries, most in the 1740s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Chapel Hill (2), Reid Street (1), Jones Ferry Road (1), William A B Branch (1), Durham (1)
- Married into
- Thompson 1 · the marriages
- Spellings to try
- Craig, Creige, Craigg, Claige
- Search beyond these records
- Craige 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 Craige there)
- Craige 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 4 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.
- Craige, Burton 3 entries, 1941–1987
- Craige, Charles 1 entry, 1922
- Craige, James F. 1 entry, 1869
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Craige, William 7 entries, 1740–1840
Show the 7 entries
- 1740–1840: New Hope Presbyterian Church, 1740–1840
- about 1741 to 1743: Craig, Blackwood and Kirkland families come down from Pennsylvania to the Hawfields
- about 1750: Hawfields families move to New Hope Creek over doubts about their Granville titles
- June 1758: James Craig buys back the Richland Fork tract on New Hope Creek
- November 2, 1785: David Craig's 1785 stone is the oldest dated marker in New Hope's old graveyard
- February 1816: John Craig, a founder and first elder of New Hope church, dies
- May 9, 1840: Four elders are ordained at New Hope
In the historical records 7 records
4 deeds, 1 marriages, 1 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. Craige marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1770s
1780s
- 1785WillsWill of William (x) Craige
