Orange County Indexed
The Gardner surname
The Gardner name in Orange County Indexed: 10 historical records, 12 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1780 to 1863
most named in the 1800s
- Wills 1780
- Deeds 1788–1863
- Marriages 1801
- Court minutes 1806–1810
- In the chronology
- 1916 to 1994 12 people in 61 entries, most in the 1930s
- In books and archives
- 2 people, born 1882 to 1933
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Hillsborough (2), Churton Street (2), Tryon Street (2), Haw River (2), Fishing Creek (1), Hartwood (?) (1), Parish of Lochmabin (1), Shire of Annandale in Scotland (1)
- Married into
- Boswell 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Shearman 2
- People with a page here
- James Carson Gardner, O. Max Gardner
- Spellings to try
- Garner, Gardiner
- Search beyond these records
- Gardner 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 Gardner there)
- Gardner 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 12 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.
- Gardner, Dillard 3 entries, 1935–1938
- Gardner, Dillard S. 1 entry, 1934
- Gardner, Gwen 1 entry, 1991
- Gardner, J. A. 1 entry, 1943
- Gardner, James W. 1 entry, 1965
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Gardner, Jim 6 entries, 1968–1992
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- October 29, 1968: UNC holds Time-Out Day for open forums on the University and society
- 1982–1994: The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, B-GLAD and student-fee funding, 1982–1994
- By October 4, 1988: Campus Watch campaigns to have the legislature defund the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association
- October 11, 1988: Campus Watch holds a press conference against student-fee funding of the gay and lesbian association
- 1990–1994: The movement for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, 1990–1994
- October 26, 1992: Jim Gardner criticizes the Black Cultural Center plan at Republican headquarters in Chapel Hill
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Gardner, John 5 entries, 1968–1994
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- 1968–1990: From campus buses to Chapel Hill Transit, 1968–1990
- first week of January 1988: A free shuttle bus between UNC and Duke University begins running
- 1989: Chapel Hill buses carry 2,112,311 riders
- summer 1989: UNC opens a 500-space park-and-ride lot on Estes Drive
- early October 1994: Carrboro's aldermen begin sending neighbor disputes to mediation
- Gardner, O. Max 29 entries, 1916–1953
- Gardner, O. Max 2 entries, 1928–1970
- Gardner, Reece B. 1 entry, 1968
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Gardner, Thomas 4 entries, 1970–1977
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- 1970–1983: Chapel Hill and the New Hope dam (Jordan Lake), 1970–1983
- September 3, 1973: Alderman Shirley Marshall announces for election to the Chapel Hill board
- January 30, 1973: Chapel Hill aldermen appoint Thomas Gardner to Coxhead's seat
- October 24, 1977: Chapel Hill aldermen reaffirm the town's opposition to filling Jordan Lake
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Gardner, Tommy 7 entries, 1965–1991
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- 1965–1977: Chapel Hill and Carrboro town and school board elections, 1965–1977
- 1972–1974: Planning downtown Chapel Hill's renewal, 1972–1974
- November 6, 1973: Chapel Hill elects Shirley Marshall, Gerry Cohen, Tommy Gardner and Sid Rancer to the Board of Aldermen
- March 11, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen accept the downtown study and set up a committee to carry it out
- December 16, 1974: Chapel Hill aldermen ask for federal money for seven more buses and a Plant Road bus garage
- November 5, 1991: Chapel Hill voters elect Ken Broun mayor
- 1991: The 1991 town elections in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
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.
- Gardner, Oliver Max, 1882-1947 3 works
- Gardner, James Carson, 1933- 1 work
In the historical records 10 records
5 deeds, 1 marriages, 3 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. Gardner marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1780s
- 1780WillsWill of William Johnston
- 1788DeedsNorth Carolina to Thomas Gardner, 4 July 1788
1790s
1800s
1810s
- 1810Court minutesDeed, John Gardner to Benjamin Shearman, proved by Levin Sullivan.