Orange County Indexed
The Lawson surname
The Lawson name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records and 7 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1763 to 1895
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1763–1767
- Court minutes 1765–1806
- Marriages 1793–1895
- In the chronology
- 1680 to 1948 7 people in 21 entries, most in the 1930s
- Married into
- Parker 2, Cates 1, Wagonner 1, Wood 1 · the marriages
- People with a page here
- John Lawson
- Search beyond these records
- Lawson 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 Lawson there)
- Lawson 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 7 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.
- Lawson, John 6 entries, 1680–1938
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Lawson, R. B. 4 entries, 1880–1937
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- 1880: F. K. Ball builds a shingled house on East Franklin Street
- fall 1907: The university football team's training table is set up at George Trice's restaurant
- May 6, 1919: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson and elects five aldermen
- October 25, 1937: Chapel Hill fetes Estelle Lawson Page, the new women's national golf champion
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Lawson, Mrs. R. B. 6 entries, 1918–1935
Show the 6 entries
- October 1918: Carrboro opens an influenza diet kitchen in the mill club rooms
- January 10, 1929: Davie Poplar chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is organized in Chapel Hill
- by March 14, 1930: A&P president J. R. Hartford gives $150 toward Chapel Hill's Black nurse
- January 30, 1930: County welfare officer George H. Lawrence appeals for food for destitute families
- 1935–1942: Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen award, 1935–1942
- December 21, 1935: Mrs. R. B. Lawson is named Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen
- Lawson, Robert B. 1 entry, 1924
- Lawson, Robert Barrett 2 entries, 1930–1940
- Lawson, S. L. 1 entry, 1948
- Lawson, Sarah L. 1 entry, 1947
In the historical records 12 records
2 deeds, 5 marriages and 5 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Lawson marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1790s
- 1793MarriagesMarriage bond: James Lawson and Catharine Wagonner
1800s
1860s
- 1866MarriagesMarriage bond: Nelson P Wood and Annie Lawson
1870s
- 1877MarriagesMarriage license: Hubbard Parker and Letha Lawson
1890s
- 1895MarriagesMarriage license: Legrand Cates and Mary Lawson
Undated
- Court minutesFifteen grand jurors were named, with Richard Holeman as foreman.
- Court minutesFifteen men were appointed to open a road from Striplin’s Path to the county line near John Parks; John Bumpass became overseer.
- Court minutesDavid Lawson and Alexander Shaw proved attendance in Nash’s suit against Fanning.
