Orange County Indexed
The Dowd surname
The Dowd name in Orange County Indexed: 4 historical records, 2 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1766 to 1873
most named in the 1770s
- Wills 1766
- Deeds 1770
- Marriages 1873
- In the chronology
- 1930 to 1993 2 people in 5 entries, most in the 1980s
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1840
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Deep River (2), Island Creek (1), Pine Hill Creek (1), Ireland (1)
- Married into
- Lipscomb 1 · the marriages
- People with a page here
- Cornelius Furman Dowd
- Search beyond these records
- Dowd 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 Dowd there)
- Dowd 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 2 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.
- Dowd, Carey 1 entry, 1930
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Dowd, Elizabeth 4 entries, 1989–1993
Show the 4 entries
- by July 20, 1989: Governor James Martin leaves Barbara Perry off the UNC trustees, leaving one woman on the board
- September 1, 1989: UNC trustees elect Earl N. "Phil" Phillips Jr. chairman
- April 11, 1992: Ann Cates and Pepper Dowd are named to lead the Educational Foundation and the General Alumni Association
- November 18, 1993: UNC trustees give William R. Davie Awards to four alumni
In books and archives 1 heading
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.
In the historical records 4 records
2 deeds, 1 marriages 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. Dowd marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
- 1766WillsWill of Hugh (x) Sinon
1770s
1870s
- 1873MarriagesMarriage license: John W Dowd and Susan M Lipscomb
