Orange County Indexed
The Harriss surname
The Harriss name in Orange County Indexed: 17 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1761 to 1874
most named in the 1760s
- Court minutes 1761
- Deeds 1765–1768
- Marriages 1874
- In the chronology
- 1847 to 1954 2 people in 2 entries, most in the 1840s
- Married into
- Carr 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Lloyd 2
- Spellings to try
- Harris, Hargiss, Haris
- Search beyond these records
- Harriss 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 Harriss there)
- Harriss 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.
In the historical records 17 records
9 deeds, 1 marriages and 7 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Harriss marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
- 1761Court minutesThe court convened with justices William Churton, Thomas Lloyd and Tyrie Harriss present.
- 1765DeedsThomas Harriss to Tyrie Harriss, May 1765
- 1765DeedsRichard Fincher to Tyrie Harriss, August 1765
- 1765DeedsJoseph Powell to Nathaniel Harriss, August 1765
- 1765DeedsThomas Harriss to Lewis Brantley, August 1765
- 1767DeedsCharles Harriss to John Burks, May 1767
- 1767DeedsTyrie Harriss to Joseph Barbee, August 1767
- 1767DeedsTyrie Harriss to Thomas Lloyd, August 1767
- 1767DeedsThomas King to Tyrie Harriss, November 1767
- 1768DeedsTyrie Harris to Nathaniel Harriss, April 1768
1870s
- 1874MarriagesMarriage license: Junius T Harriss and Lizzie M Carr
Undated
- Court minutesThomas Harriss brought a debt claim against James Bowie.
- Court minutesThomas Harriss brought a debt claim against Thomas Loyd.
- Court minutesThomas Harriss brought a debt claim against James Boyd.
- Court minutesThomas Harriss brought a debt claim against Samuel Burton and Thomas Stagg.
- Court minutesThe court met the following morning with three named justices present.
- Court minutesJoseph Brittain retracted his accusation of partiality against magistrate Tyrie Harriss and asked forgiveness after Harriss prosecuted him.
