Orange County Indexed
The Denning surname
The Denning name in Orange County Indexed: 33 historical records.
- In the records
- 1782 to 1816
most named in the 1790s
- Marriages 1782–1792
- Deeds 1792–1804
- Court minutes 1796–1800
- Wills 1808–1816
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Toms Creek (8), Stony Creek (5), Conditional Branch (1), Haw River (1), Laughlins Creek (1), Hillsborough (1), Laughlen’s Creek (1)
- Married into
- Bowls 1, Lilley 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Boyle 5, Moore 3, Lemmon 2, Hart 2, Lovel 2, Lynch 2
- Spellings to try
- Dinning, Dunning, Dening, Dennin, Deening, Derning
- Search beyond these records
- Denning 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 Denning there)
- Denning 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 33 records
13 deeds, 2 marriages, 15 court minutes and 3 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. Denning marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1780s
- 1782MarriagesMarriage bond: Robert Lilley and Mary Denning
1790s
- 1792DeedsJohn Moody to David Denning, 3 August 1792
- 1792DeedsPeter Lemmon to David Denning, 30 July 1792
- 1792DeedsEdward Gwin to David Denning, 3 August 1792
- 1792MarriagesMarriage bond: William Denning and Jeane Bowls
- 1793DeedsRobert Moore to Margaret Denning, 23 February 1793
- 1793DeedsRobert Moore to Margaret Denning, 1793
- 1796DeedsPeter Hart to David Denning, 13 August 1796
- 1796Court minutesJurors convicted Henry Willis of assault.
- 1797DeedsMargaret Denning to Colstin Lovel, 1 April 1797
- 1797Court minutesEllender McDade recovered damages and costs against James Coghlin on appeal; jurors rejected satisfaction.
- 1797Court minutesJurors acquitted Francis Dunn.
- 1798Court minutesDeed, Margaret Denning to Colson Lovel, proved by John Denning.
- 1799DeedsJohn Denning to William Lewis, 29 November 1799
- 1799DeedsDavid Denning to Henry Martin, 13 September 1799
- 1799DeedsNorth Carolina to David Denning, 11 March 1799
- 1799DeedsDavid Denning to Samuel Thompson, 28 September 1799
- 1799DeedsDavid Denning to John Lynch, 15 August 1799
1800s
1810s
- 1815WillsWill of William (x) Boyle
- 1816WillsWill of Ann (x) Boyle
Undated
- Court minutesThe jury assessed George Johnston’s damages and costs against Henry Weisner in an attachment action.
- Court minutesDeed, John Mood[y] to David Denning, proved by James Boyle.
- Court minutesDeed, Peter Hart to David Denning, proved by James Boyle.
- Court minutesDeed, Peter Lemmon to David Denning, proved by James Boyle.
- Court minutesThe court ordered jurors David Denning, James Wilson Newhope, Baxter King and 27 others summoned for the next term.
- Court minutesThe court recorded Robert Thompson, David Denning, James Wilson and 27 others for jury service.
- Court minutesThe court listed original jurors who appeared.
- Court minutesJames Crutcher recovered on John Stroud’s notes with damages and costs; jurors rejected the gaming contract defense.
- Court minutesWm Polk recovered bond damages and costs against James Patterson and others for unperformed conditions.
- Court minutesDeed, John Lackey to James Dunlap, proved by David Denning.
