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The Denton surname

The Denton name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records.

In the records
1807 to 1823 most named in the 1820s
  • Marriages 1807
  • Deeds 1820–1823
Places in its deeds and wills
Stinking Quarter Creek (5), Big Alamance Creek (1), Little Stinking Quarter Creek (1), Lynns Spring Branch (1)
Married into
Shofner 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Shofner 6, Robertson 5, Roberston 2
Spellings to try
Denson, Denon
Search beyond these records

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

7 deeds and 1 marriages, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Denton marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

1800s

1820s

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