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The Herring surname

The Herring name in Orange County Indexed: 7 historical records, 5 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.

In the records
1779 to 1875 most named in the 1770s
  • Tax lists 1779
  • Deeds 1821
  • Records of enslaved people 1821
  • Marriages 1875
In the chronology
1929 to 1992 5 people in 6 entries, most in the 1950s
In books and archives
1 person
Married into
Hogan 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Raspberry 2, Palmer 2
People with a page here
Harriet L. Herring
Spellings to try
Herrin
Search beyond these records

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 5 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 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 7 records

1 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 1 marriages, 2 court minutes and 2 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Herring marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

1770s

1820s

1870s

Undated

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