Orange County Indexed
The Holms surname
The Holms name in Orange County Indexed: 24 historical records.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1800
most named in the 1790s
- Tax lists 1755
- Court minutes 1790–1800
- Marriages 1791
- Married into
- Gibbs 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Christmas 2
- Spellings to try
- Holmes, Holts, Helms
- Search beyond these records
- Holms 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 Holms there)
- Holms 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 historical records 24 records
1 marriages, 22 court minutes and 1 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. Holms marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: Walter Holms
1790s
- 1790Court minutesThe court fined eight jurors for nonattendance; three were also annotated as excused.
- 1790Court minutesThe court remitted Holms’s and Christmas’s nonattendance fines after they appeared and explained their absence.
- 1790Court minutesThe jury awarded Peter V Williamson £60.8 plus costs against Samuel May; an appeal followed.
- 1790Court minutesThe jury awarded guardian Mark Patterson £6 plus costs against Alexander Rhodes.
- 1790Court minutesThe jury convicted Andrew Burke of assault and battery on February 23 but acquitted him concerning February 19.
- 1790Court minutesThe jury awarded Wm Courtney sixpence in damages plus costs against James Turner.
- 1790Court minutesThe court appointed twelve men to survey the proposed road from Rays Lane to Haw Branch and report next term.
- 1791MarriagesMarriage bond: John Holms and Catharine Gibbs
- 1791Court minutesJno McCallum and five other jurors received fines for missed attendance.
- 1798Court minutesThe court recorded Nath’l Carter, Nath’l McLemore, Wm Whithead Sr and 11 others for jury service.
1800s
- 1800Court minutesDeed, John Holms to Wm Kirk, proved by Richard Christmas.
Undated
- Court minutesThe court appointed James Holms as road overseer.
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the venire listing the summoned jurors.
- Court minutesThe record listed remaining panel jurors and marked five as excused.
- Court minutesThe court ordered Samuel Gappin’s unnamed three-year-old orphan bound to Robert Holms until adulthood to learn coopering.
- Court minutesThe court appointed Joseph Holms as road overseer.
- Court minutesThe sheriff returned the executed venire naming the summoned jurors.
- Court minutesThe record listed remaining original-panel jurors and marked Jno Greham excused.
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Rob’t Holms granted to Rachel Holms; sureties Jno Homes and Abraham Whinery.
- Court minutesThe court recorded David Strayhorn, James Hart, James Craig and 34 others for jury service.
- Court minutesThe court listed the remaining members of the original jury panel.
- Court minutesThe court recorded Garrot Garrison, Jno Riggs, Joseph Wood and 32 others for jury service.
- Court minutesThe court recorded Rob’t Scoby, Jno Flintham, Joseph Hart and 11 others for jury service.
