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Orange County Indexed

The Knight surname

The Knight name in Orange County Indexed: 33 historical records, 11 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1755 to 1900 most named in the 1790s
  • Tax lists 1755–1779
  • Deeds 1767–1800
  • Marriages 1792–1900
  • Court minutes 1795–1807
  • Records of enslaved people 1801
In the chronology
1841 to 1982 11 people in 48 entries, most in the 1920s
In books and archives
2 people, born 1886
Places in its deeds and wills
Stags Creek (2), Mountain Creek (2), Haw River (1)
Married into
Carrington 1, Lassiter 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Carrington 7, Cate 2, Fulton 2, Horton 2
People with a page here
Bobby Knight, Edgar Wallace Knight
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 11 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 2 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 33 records

8 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 2 marriages, 20 court minutes and 2 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Knight marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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