Orange County Indexed
The Homes surname
The Homes name in Orange County Indexed: 18 historical records.
- In the records
- 1764 to 1815
most named in the 1780s
- Court minutes 1764–1811
- Tax lists 1780–1790
- Wills 1794
- Deeds 1796
- Marriages 1815
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Haw River (1)
- Married into
- Pickard 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Armstrong 2
- Spellings to try
- Holmes, Hobes, Homer, Hoomes
- Search beyond these records
- Homes 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 Homes there)
- Homes 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 18 records
1 deeds, 1 marriages, 11 court minutes, 4 tax list entries 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. Homes marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1780s
- 1780Tax listsThe 1780–81 tax lists: Homes, John (Caswell District)
- 1782Court minutesOn William Galbreath’s petition, Alexander Patent was summoned; four men were appointed to value an acre each of their lands around the B…
- 1782Court minutesNamed grand and petty jurors were appointed for the next court at Hillsborough on the fourth Monday in August.
- 1784Court minutesSamuel Homes became overseer from Island Ford to the fork leading to Will’s Sawmill.
- 1784Court minutesThos. Robson bonded with Robert Hunter and Samuel Homes on the same terms.
- 1788Court minutesThe record listed prospective jurors without an accompanying summons order.
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Rob’t Homes (St. Asaph’s District)
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Joseph Homes (St. Asaph’s District)
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: James Homes (St. Asaph’s District)
- 1794WillsWill of William Ray
- 1796DeedsUNC to Joseph Homes, 1 May 1796
1810s
- 1811Court minutesDeed, Wm Philips to Henry Albright, proved by John Homes.
- 1811Court minutesDeed, Henry E McCullock to Joseph Homes, proved by John Stockard.
- 1815MarriagesMarriage bond: Archibald D Homes and Caty Pickard
Undated
- Court minutesJohn Armstrong was appointed road overseer to the Trading Path’s southern Haw branch, using workers belonging to John Butler, John Trousd…
- Court minutesAdministration of the estate of Rob’t Holms granted to Rachel Holms; sureties Jno Homes and Abraham Whinery.
- Court minutesThe court listed the remaining original-panel jurors with attendance annotations.
