Orange County Indexed

The Jeffries surname

The Jeffries name in Orange County Indexed: 32 historical records, 12 people in the chronology and 3 headings in books and archives.

In the records

1795 to 1911 most named in the 1800s

Court minutes 1795–1816
Deeds 1796–1868
Marriages 1796–1911
Records of enslaved people 1803–1806
Wills 1818

In the chronology

1787 to 2023 12 people in 13 entries, most in the 1990s

In books and archives

1 family heading and 2 people, born 1875 to 1939

Places in its deeds and wills

Morgan Creek (1), Quaker Creek (1)

Married into

Hathcock 2, Jones 2, Evans 1, Griffis 1, Hethcock 1, Moore 1, Whitmore 1, Pratt 1, Walker 1 · the marriages

Often named with

Dunlap 4, Leathers 3, Bracken 2, Cox 2

People with a page here

James J. Jeffries, John Blackfeather Jeffries

Spellings to try

Jeffreys, Jeffrey, Jeffres, Jefferies, Jeffrass, Jeffrers

Search beyond these records

Jeffries 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 Jeffries there)
Jeffries 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.

In books and archives 3 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.

Jeffries family family, 2 works
Jeffries, John Hayles Blackfeather, 1939-2023 2 works
Jeffries, James J., 1875-1953 1 work

In the historical records 32 records

8 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 13 marriages, 8 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. Jeffries marriages in full · Search the name in every collection