Orange County Indexed
The Dortch surname
The Dortch name in Orange County Indexed: 17 historical records.
- In the records
- 1799 to 1863
most named in the 1810s
- Marriages 1799–1843
- Court minutes 1816
- Wills 1817
- Deeds 1863
- Married into
- Bacon 1, Carrington 1, Woods 1, Ryals 1, Nichols 1, Lockhart 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Woods 2
- Spellings to try
- Dorch
- Search beyond these records
- Dortch 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 Dortch there)
- Dortch 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 17 records
1 deeds, 6 marriages, 9 court minutes and 1 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. Dortch marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1790s
- 1799MarriagesMarriage bond: Young Dortch and Nancy Woods
1810s
- 1816Court minutesThe jury decided James Barbee’s action in favor of Wyatt Ballard.
- 1816Court minutesThe jury awarded John Young damages and costs against William Warren.
- 1816Court minutesRivers Hodges was nonsuited in his action against Edmund Herndon.
- 1817WillsWill of Mary Woods
1820s
- 1824MarriagesMarriage bond: David Dortch and Sarah Ryals
1830s
- 1830MarriagesMarriage bond: John Dortch and Ruth Carrington
- 1830MarriagesMarriage bond: Alvis Nichols and Polly Dortch
- 1831MarriagesMarriage bond: David Lockhart and Emmeline Dortch
1840s
- 1843MarriagesMarriage bond: John Y Dortch and Sarah B Bacon
1860s
Undated
- Court minutesThe jury credited two payments by James Glenn and rejected setoff; the court recognized Moore Bowden’s judgment.
- Court minutesThe jury found a balance owing to William Laws’s administrators after offsets, but found Thomas Laws’s administrators had fully administe…
- Court minutesGeorge Carrington was nonsuited after failing to appear against Merrimon Cole.
- Court minutesThe jury awarded James Whitted damages against Augustine Dishon.
- Court minutesThe jury awarded William Kirkland damages against Young Dortch.
- Court minutesThe jury awarded Yarbrough and Cain and Co damages against Young Dortch.
