Orange County Indexed
The Lay surname
The Lay name in Orange County Indexed: 7 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1761 to 1793
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1761–1764
- Wills 1779–1793
- Court minutes 1785
- In the chronology
- 1932 2 people in 2 entries
- Search beyond these records
- Lay 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 Lay there)
- Lay 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 2 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 the historical records 7 records
2 deeds, 2 court minutes and 3 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. Search the name in every collection
1760s
1770s
- 1779WillsWill of Martin Lay
1780s
1790s
- 1793WillsWill of Philip (x) Snoterly
