Orange County Indexed
The Downing surname
The Downing name in Orange County Indexed: 4 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1755
most named in the 1750s
- Deeds 1755
- In the chronology
- 1989 1 person in 1 entry
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Cane Creek (1)
- Often named with
- Lindley 2
- Spellings to try
- Downin, Downings
- Search beyond these records
- Downing 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 Downing there)
- Downing 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 1 person
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.
In the historical records 4 records
1 deeds and 3 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection
1750s
Undated
- Court minutesJames Downing replaced William Murrah as constable.
- Court minutesJames Downing registered a livestock mark.
- Court minutesDeed, James Downing to George Allen, proved by James Lindley.
