Orange County Indexed

The Dickens surname

The Dickens name in Orange County Indexed: 31 historical records, 5 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.

In the records

1755 to 1897 most named in the 1770s

Tax lists 1755
Deeds 1755–1840
Records of enslaved people 1770
Court minutes 1800–1804
Marriages 1880–1897

In the chronology

1833 to 1986 5 people in 6 entries, most in the 1980s

In books and archives

2 people, born 1925 to 1938

Places in its deeds and wills

Flat River (11), Deep Creek (8), Little River (2), Camp Creek (1), Richland Creek (1), Spring Branch (1), Old Road (1), Hillsborough Old Road (1)

Married into

Cheek 1, Davis 1 · the marriages

Often named with

Waite 3, Armstrong 2, Ussery 2, Nollner 2, Nolner 2

People with a page here

Hazel Dickens, Roy S. Dickens

Spellings to try

Dickins

Search beyond these records

Dickens 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 Dickens there)
Dickens 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 5 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.

Dickens, Alexander 1 entry, 1873
- March 7, 1873: John T. Hogan is chosen school committeeman for Hillsborough Township
Dickens, Roy S. 2 entries, 1983–1985
See all 2 entries in the chronology
Dickens, Roy S. 1 entry, 1986
- May 25, 1986: Archaeologist Roy S. Dickens Jr., leader of the Occaneechi village dig at Hillsborough, dies
Dickens, Roy S., Jr. 1 entry, 1986
- May 25, 1986: Archaeologist Roy S. Dickens Jr., leader of the Occaneechi village dig at Hillsborough, dies
Dickens, Samuel 2 entries, 1833–1835
- November 21, 1833: The university treasurer reports the trustees nearly clear of bank debt
- March to November 1835: Trustees sell off the university's Tennessee lands

In books and archives 2 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.

Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011 1 work
Dickens, Roy S., 1938- 1 work

In the historical records 31 records

20 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 2 marriages, 7 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Dickens marriages in full · Search the name in every collection