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Orange County Indexed

The Jordan surname

The Jordan name in Orange County Indexed: 204 historical records, 38 people in the chronology and 3 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1779 to 1911 most named in the 1860s
  • Tax lists 1779–1790
  • Deeds 1782–1874
  • Court minutes 1783–1818
  • Marriages 1783–1911
  • Wills 1784–1892
  • Records of enslaved people 1815–1856
In the chronology
1808 to 2017 38 people in 76 entries, most in the 1990s
In books and archives
1 family heading and 2 people, born 1843 to 1963
Places in its deeds and wills
Little River (10), Eno River (7), Deep Creek (4), Back Creek (4), Jordans Creek (3), Mebane (3), Stony Creek (2), Great Road (2)
Married into
Forrest 4, Breeze 3, Holeman 2, Miller 2, Porterfield 2, Parker 2, Wilkerson 2, Latta 2, Thompson 2, Allison 1, Berry 1, Bird 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Breeze 20, Ray 8, Brown 7, Garrison 6, Jones 6, Allison 6, Dixon 6, McBroom 5, Turner 5, Latimer 5, Whitted 4, Clark 4
People with a page here
Michael Jordan, William Churchill Jordan
Spellings to try
Jorden, Jordon, Jourdan, Jurdan, Jordane
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 38 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.

In the historical records 204 records

87 deeds, 10 records of enslaved people, 64 marriages, 29 court minutes, 6 tax list entries and 8 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. Jordan marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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