Orange County Indexed
The Crain surname
The Crain name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records.
- In the records
- 1813 to 1836
most named in the 1830s
- Court minutes 1813
- Deeds 1826–1836
- Records of enslaved people 1830–1835
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Eno River (4), Crains Mills (1), Taylors Mills (1), Seven Mile Creek (1), Hillsborough (1), Murphey's Mills (1), Haw River (1), Hillsboro (1)
- Often named with
- Webb 3
- Spellings to try
- Craig, Craik
- Search beyond these records
- Crain 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 Crain there)
- Crain 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 historical records 8 records
5 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
1810s
- 1813Court minutesDeed, Joseph Kirkland to William Kirkland, proved by John Crain.
1820s
1830s
- 1830DeedsThomas D Crain to James Webb trustee, 22 May 1830
- 1830Records of enslaved peopleDeed of trust: Thomas D Crain to James Webb, 22 May 1830
- 1835DeedsJames Webb to Thomas D Crain, 13 March 1835
- 1835Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): James Webb to Thomas D Crain, 13 March 1835
- 1836DeedsThomas D Crain to James S Smith, 20 October 1836
