Orange County Indexed
The Dorch surname
The Dorch name in Orange County Indexed: 18 historical records.
- In the records
- 1803 to 1850
most named in the 1810s
- Deeds 1803–1850
- Court minutes 1804–1816
- Records of enslaved people 1815–1838
- Wills 1833–1846
- Marriages 1837
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Eno River (2), Buck Quarter Creek (1)
- Married into
- Walker 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Carrington 3, Lytle 2, Hargis 2
- Spellings to try
- Dortch
- Search beyond these records
- Dorch 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 Dorch there)
- Dorch 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 18 records
7 deeds, 3 records of enslaved people, 1 marriages, 5 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. Dorch marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1800s
1810s
- 1811DeedsSampson Wood to Young Dorch, 24 September 1811
- 1815DeedsYoung Dorch to William Carrington, 20 May 1815
- 1815Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): Young Dorch to William Carrington, 20 May 1815
- 1816Court minutesBill of Sale, Young Dorch to William Carrington, proved by John Latta.
- 1816Court minutesThe jury awarded Young Dorch damages against William Carrington.
1820s
- 1821DeedsYoung Dorch to Thomas N S Hargis, 20 May 1821
- 1821Records of enslaved peopleMortgage: Young Dorch to Thomas N S Hargis, 20 May 1821
1830s
- 1831DeedsYoung Dorch to James Webb trustee, 9 August 1831
- 1833WillsWill of Elizabeth (x) Laws
- 1837MarriagesMarriage bond: George Walker and Lucy Dorch
- 1838DeedsJames Webb trustee to Young Dorch, 30 August 1838
- 1838Records of enslaved peopleRelease or receipt: James Webb to Young Dorch, 30 August 1838
1840s
- 1846WillsWill of Young (x) Dorch
