Orange County Indexed
The Kirby surname
The Kirby name in Orange County Indexed: 21 historical records and 3 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1800 to 1910
most named in the 1810s
- Court minutes 1800
- Wills 1805–1887
- Marriages 1810–1910
- Records of enslaved people 1814–1818
- Deeds 1874
- In the chronology
- 1868 to 1989 3 people in 9 entries, most in the 1880s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Pokeberry Creek (1), Chatham (1), Orange (1), Price's Creek (1)
- Married into
- Caldwell 1, Day 1, Harris 1, Nevill 1, Richmond 1, Smith 1, Mebane 1, Malone 1, Wilson 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Merritt 2
- Spellings to try
- Kilby
- Search beyond these records
- Kirby 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 Kirby there)
- Kirby 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 3 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.
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Kirby, Frank 6 entries, 1886–1887
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- 1886–1887: The killing of student Jacob Freeze and the trials, 1886–1887
- November 8-12, 1886: The grand jury indicts five Black men in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
- October 10, 1886: Student Jacob A. Freeze is shot dead during a clash between students and Black residents
- May 8, 1887: Prisoners in the Freeze case try to break out of the Hillsborough jail
- December 8, 1887: Three Black men convicted in the killing of student Freeze go to the penitentiary
- March 30-April 2, 1887: Three Black men are convicted of manslaughter in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
- Kirby, J. Michael 2 entries, 1989
- Kirby, Thomas 1 entry, 1868
In the historical records 21 records
2 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 9 marriages, 4 court minutes and 4 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. Kirby marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1800s
1810s
- 1810MarriagesMarriage bond: Wiley Kirby and Celah Nevill
- 1814Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): John Kirby to William Henry Merritt, 10 October 1814
- 1818Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): James Kirby (estate) to William Henry Merritt, 21 November 1818
1820s
- 1828WillsWill of Josiah Clifton
1840s
- 1844WillsWill of Francis Jones
1860s
- 1866MarriagesMarriage bond: Wilson Caldwell and Susan Kirby
- 1866MarriagesMarriage bond: William Kirby and Ellen Richmond
- 1868MarriagesMarriage bond: Edward Kirby and Annette Smith
1870s
1880s
- 1887WillsWill of Thomas Kirby
1900s
- 1901MarriagesMarriage license: George Harris and Minnie Kirby
- 1902MarriagesMarriage license: Abraham Mebane and Anna Bell Kirby
- 1903MarriagesMarriage license: Benjamin Kirby and Lela Malone
1910s
- 1910MarriagesMarriage license: Lewis Jr Wilson and Effie Kirby
