Orange County Indexed
The Craven surname
The Craven name in Orange County Indexed: 10 historical records, 4 people in the chronology and 3 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1761 to 1879
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1761–1794
- Wills 1792
- Marriages 1879
- In the chronology
- 1768 to 1971 4 people in 9 entries, most in the 1760s
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading and 2 people
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Stinking Quarter Creek (2)
- Married into
- Atwater 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Granville 2
- People with a page here
- B. Craven, Peter Craven
- Spellings to try
- Caven
- Search beyond these records
- Craven 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 Craven there)
- Craven 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.
- Craven, Avery 1 entry, 1945
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Craven, Braxton 4 entries, 1873–1971
Show the 4 entries
- July 1873: State educational convention calls for reviving the university
- 1877–1905: Caldwell Institute at Caldwell, 1877–1905
- June 1, 1877: Caldwell Institute holds its closing exercises, with an address by Braxton Craven
- by June 18, 1971: Federal court strikes down North Carolina's one-year residency rule in a suit against the Orange County elections board
- Craven, John 1 entry, 1790
- Craven, Peter 3 entries, 1768
In books and archives 3 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.
- Craven family family, 1 work
- Craven, B. 2 works
- Craven, Peter, approximately 1712-1791 1 work
In the historical records 10 records
6 deeds, 1 marriages, 2 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. Craven marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1790s
1870s
- 1879MarriagesMarriage license: John S Atwater and Matilda Craven
