The Kirkland surname

In the chronology 25 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.

• Kirkland, Alexander 3 entries, 1840–1869
  • May 9, 1840: Four elders are ordained at New Hope
  • Late 1841: Elizabeth Hobbs gives birth to her son George in Hillsborough
  • 1869 and 1870: Alexander Kirkland, a son of the congregation, supplies New Hope
• Kirkland, Alexander McKenzie 2 entries, 1837–1841
  • About 1837–1841: Alexander McKenzie Kirkland subjects Elizabeth Hobbs to about four years of sexual coercion
  • Late 1841: Elizabeth Hobbs gives birth to her son George in Hillsborough
• Kirkland, Anna McKenzie 1 entry, 1856
  • June 1856: Anne Call Cameron, piano teacher to Burwell School students, dies
• Kirkland, Carolina 1 entry, 1830
  • about 1830: A two-story frame farmhouse is built on the land later called Webb's Happy Acres
• Kirkland, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1935
  • September 24, 1935: Women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organize a home demonstration club
• Kirkland, G. M. 2 entries, 1929–1935
  • August 1929: Chapel Hill's American Legion post elects Paul Robertson commander
  • July 1935: W. E. Thompson is elected commander of the Chapel Hill American Legion post
• Kirkland, Garland 1 entry, 1928
  • November 11, 1928: Daughters of the Confederacy give Crosses of Military Service to two Chapel Hill veterans
• Kirkland, George 3 entries, 1841–1855
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• Kirkland, George 1 entry, 1948
  • 1948: George Kirkland, Chapel Hill's first African American dentist, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Kirkland, George A. 1 entry, 1924
  • by July 25, 1924: George A. Kirkland opens a dental office in Chapel Hill
• Kirkland, Jesse 5 entries, 1916–1924
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  • 1916–1924: Chapel Hill's movie houses and the Pickwick fire, 1916–1924
  • 1918–1924: Henry Guthrie's West Franklin Street property and Black-owned businesses, 1918–1924
  • about 1918: Henry Guthrie opens a movie theatre on West Franklin Street
  • by July 25, 1924: George A. Kirkland opens a dental office in Chapel Hill
  • July 4, 1924: The Standard, a movie theatre owned by and for Black residents, opens on West Franklin Street
• Kirkland, John 4 entries, 1850–1914
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  • 1850s (uncertain): John Kirkland builds a two-story frame farmhouse near Calvander
  • 1860s (called antebellum): John Kirkland builds a log house on Kirkland Road
  • by January 6, 1898: John Kirkland takes over J. W. Hooker's livery and feed stable in Hillsborough
  • April 3, 1914: Capt. John Kirkland dies at his home east of Hillsboro and is buried at Ayr Mount
• Kirkland, John U. 25 entries, 1833–1874
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• Kirkland, John U. 1 entry, 1854
  • September 14, 1854: Orange Superior Court sends the William Hester slave-stealing case to Chatham
• Kirkland, Joseph 4 entries, 1740–1869
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  • 1740–1840: New Hope Presbyterian Church, 1740–1840
  • about 1741 to 1743: Craig, Blackwood and Kirkland families come down from Pennsylvania to the Hawfields
  • May 9, 1840: Four elders are ordained at New Hope
  • 1869 and 1870: Alexander Kirkland, a son of the congregation, supplies New Hope
• Kirkland, Margaret Scott 1 entry, 1836
  • June 22, 1836: William Kirkland dies, leaving Ayr Mount to his widow
• Kirkland, Samuel 1 entry, 1879
  • July 17, 1879: Samuel Kirkland and Leroy Craig are ordained elders at New Hope
• Kirkland, Sue May 1 entry, 1914
  • April 3, 1914: Capt. John Kirkland dies at his home east of Hillsboro and is buried at Ayr Mount
• Kirkland, Swain 4 entries, 1890–1894
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  • October 20, 1890: Black candidates Lisbon P. Berry and London A. Whitted address voters at the court house
  • 1890–1897: Black Republicans and the county party, 1890–1897
  • September 3, 1892: Black Republicans meet apart after the county convention and name John M. Whitted for the House
  • by September 29, 1894: Swain Kirkland, a Black man of Orange County, announces his candidacy for the state House
• Kirkland, Thomas 4 entries, 1860–1885
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  • begun about 1860, finished after the war: Thomas Kirkland starts a frame house and finishes it after the Civil War
  • February 1869: Charles Phillips ordains two elders and leaves the emptied Presbyterian church in their care
  • April 26, 1884: Orange County Republicans name state convention delegates, Lisbon Berry among them
  • 1885: Dr. William P. Mallett begins handing out Chapel Hill's mail from his lot
• Kirkland, Thomas M. 3 entries, 1877–1890
  • May 19, 1877: Andrew Mickle is appointed Chapel Hill postmaster
  • by February 26, 1881: Thomas M. Kirkland becomes Chapel Hill's postmaster and moves the post office
  • early January 1890: Thomas M. Kirkland is commissioned postmaster at Chapel Hill
• Kirkland, W. W. 1 entry, 1863
  • by September 16, 1863: Hillsborough's W. W. Kirkland is promoted to brigadier general
• Kirkland, Will 1 entry, 1809
  • August 29, 1809: The court frees nine people under Absalom Tatom's will, who take the name Tatom
• Kirkland, William 16 entries, 1793–1836
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• Kirkland, William S. 1 entry, 1859
  • September 1859: Five elders are ordained at New Hope

In books and archives 4 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.

• Kirkland family family, 3 works
• Kirkland, John U. (John Umstead), 1802-1879 1 work
• Kirkland, Mary Anderson, 1809-1880 1 work
• Kirkland, William, 1768-1836 1 work

In the historical records 445 records

125 deeds, 16 records of enslaved people, 60 marriages, 216 court minutes, 4 tax list entries and 24 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. Kirkland marriages in full · Search the name in every collection