Orange County Indexed
The Curtis surname
The Curtis name in Orange County Indexed: 23 historical records, 11 people in the chronology and 3 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1796 to 1885
most named in the 1810s
- Wills 1796–1823
- Marriages 1803–1885
- Records of enslaved people 1819
- Deeds 1819–1847
- In the chronology
- 1784 to 1996 11 people in 22 entries, most in the 1870s
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading and 2 people, born 1808 to 1881
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Back Creek (4), Little River (1)
- Married into
- Bass 1, Boon 1, Bynum 1, Honeycut 1, Graves 1, Shofner 1, Williams 1, Smith 1, Nash 1, Walker 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Mordecai 2, Holt 2
- People with a page here
- Jared Curtis, Kate Curtis, Mary Jane DeRosset Curtis, Moses Ashley Curtis, Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis
- Spellings to try
- Curtins, Curtiss, Cartis
- Search beyond these records
- Curtis 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 Curtis there)
- Curtis 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 11 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.
- Curtis, Charles 1 entry, 1872
- Curtis, Charles J. 1 entry, 1880
- Curtis, Charles Jared 1 entry, 1872
- Curtis, Courtland 1 entry, 1930
- Curtis, Don 1 entry, 1996
- Curtis, John 1 entry, 1865
- Curtis, John Henry 1 entry, 1878
- Curtis, Mary 2 entries, 1787–1878
- Curtis, Moses Ashley 14 entries, 1823–1880
- Curtis, Nathaniel Cortlandt 1 entry, 1914
- Curtis, Thomas 2 entries, 1784–1787
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.
- Curtis family family, 1 work
- Curtis, M. A. (Moses Ashley), 1808-1872 4 works
- Curtis, Nathaniel Cortlandt, 1881-1953 1 work
In the historical records 23 records
6 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 11 marriages, 3 court minutes and 2 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. Curtis marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1790s
- 1796WillsWill of John Allison
1800s
- 1803MarriagesMarriage bond: John Curtis and Dolley Honeycut
1810s
- 1819DeedsThomas Curtis & Mary Curtis by Sheriff to John Woods, 24 May 1819
- 1819DeedsHinton Curtis to Moses Mordecai, 22 May 1819
- 1819Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Hinton Curtis to Moses Mordecai, 22 May 1819
1820s
- 1822DeedsJohn Holt to Samuel Curtis, 16 September 1822
- 1823WillsWill of Daniel May
1830s
1840s
1850s
- 1851MarriagesMarriage notice: C. C. Curtis and [illegible] A. Holt
- 1858MarriagesMarriage bond: James Williams and Nancy Curtis
- 1859MarriagesMarriage bond: Cullin Bass and Elizabeth Curtis
1860s
- 1867MarriagesMarriage bond: Paul Curtis and Delila Smith
1870s
- 1870MarriagesMarriage license: William Bynum and Mary L Curtis
- 1873MarriagesMarriage license: M Ashley Curtis and Mary K Nash
- 1875MarriagesMarriage license: Joseph T Boon and Leanora V Curtis
1880s
- 1885MarriagesMarriage license: James S Walker and Mary B Curtis
Undated
- Court minutesRice Curtis brought a debt claim against John Graves.
- Court minutesThe court ordered reputed father Jno Breeze to pay Thomas Curtis and Mary £18 for support of Mary’s child.
- Court minutesOn John Hogan’s petition, the court assigned workers to open the road linking Collins creek and the University road.
