The Lynch surname

In the chronology 23 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.

• Lynch, Albert 3 entries, 1865–1866
  • November 7, 1865: The Freedmen's Bureau apprentices Albert, a boy of seven, to Thomas Lynch
  • August 1865–December 1868: The Freedmen’s Bureau at Hillsborough, 1865–1868
  • May Term 1866: The court binds Albert Lynch, a boy of color, to the Rev. Thomas Lynch
• Lynch, Arch A. 1 entry, 1923
  • by August 16, 1923: County commissioners order a new New Hope Creek bridge on the Blackwood-Durham road
• Lynch, Archibald 1 entry, 1870
  • about 1870; enlarged about 1890: Archibald Lynch builds a farmhouse on Mount Hermon Church Road
• Lynch, Cora 1 entry, 1948
  • by July 8, 1948: President Truman appoints Tom Bivins postmaster of Hillsboro
• Lynch, Cora L. 1 entry, 1946
  • March 1, 1946: Cora L. Lynch takes charge of the Hillsboro post office
• Lynch, Dennis 1 entry, 1942
  • October 18, 1942: Bishop Eugene McGuinness celebrates Chapel Hill's first military field mass in Kenan Stadium
• Lynch, Edwin 2 entries, 1910–1943
  • about 1910: Banker Paul Collins builds a Queen Anne house on North Churton Street
  • by January 22, 1943: Dwight Ray of Carrboro joins the Chapel Hill ration board
• Lynch, Edwin M. 24 entries, 1910–1966
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• Lynch, George 5 entries, 1899–1993
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  • by April 6, 1899: Devereux Turner and George Lynch buy into the Hillsboro Drug Company
  • February 4, 1935: Hillsboro merchant Lemuel Lynch is killed by a hit-and-run driver
  • August 1956: The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh buys land on US 70 west of Hillsboro
  • 1990–1994: The movement for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, 1990–1994
  • April 6, 1993: Basketball co-captain George Lynch urges support for the Black Cultural Center at the NCAA welcome-home
• Lynch, George C. 4 entries, 1905–1923
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  • May 2, 1905: Hillsborough elects a town board expected to license saloons
  • by August 29, 1907: The town sells the Old Academy lot on East Tryon Street to George C. Lynch
  • 1922–1923: Hillsboro's improvements, 1922–1923
  • by February 15, 1923: Former postmaster George C. Lynch buys a Hillsboro business lot for a brick store
• Lynch, Heather 2 entries, 1990–1991
  • 1990–1994: The movement for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, 1990–1994
  • September 3, 1991: More than 100 students march to South Building to honor Sonja Stone
• Lynch, J. E. 1 entry, 1864
  • May 11 to late July 1864: Company A, 66th N.C., an Orange company, loses Lieut. J. E. Lynch and four men killed
• Lynch, L. G. 1 entry, 1853
  • February 16, 1853: The Hillsborough Fire Company reorganizes and elects Thomas Webb captain
• Lynch, Lemuel 25 entries, 1834–1983
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• Lynch, Lemuel 1 entry, 1935
  • February 4, 1935: Hillsboro merchant Lemuel Lynch is killed by a hit-and-run driver
• Lynch, Lorenzo 3 entries, 1988–1992
  • 1988–1990: The Office for Student Counseling and Dean Cell’s reappointment, 1988–1990
  • December 5, 1989: Students march outside the trustees' meeting against Dean Gillian Cell's reappointment
  • March 27, 1992: UNC holds the naming ceremony for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
• Lynch, Margaret 2 entries, 1914–1916
  • 1914–1921: Women students at the University, 1914–1921
  • September 1916: Women register in every department of the university, including pharmacy
• Lynch, Mary 1 entry, 1787
  • November Term 1787: The court licenses Mary Lynch to keep a tavern at her house
• Lynch, S. J. 6 entries, 1888–1900
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  • May 7, 1888: Hillsborough men kill a third mad dog in two weeks
  • by December 9, 1889: Hillsborough's town board puts about forty Town Commons building lots up for bids
  • May 6, 1889: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over Devereux Turner
  • May 5, 1890: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris with a seven-man town board
  • May 4, 1891: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and chooses a seven-man town board
  • May 7, 1900: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over William Strain
• Lynch, Samuel 1 entry, 1868
  • July 28, 1868: St. Mark's district residents tell the Bureau that county relief has failed
• Lynch, Thomas 3 entries, 1865–1866
  • November 7, 1865: The Freedmen's Bureau apprentices Albert, a boy of seven, to Thomas Lynch
  • May Term 1866: The court binds Albert Lynch, a boy of color, to the Rev. Thomas Lynch
  • February 1866 to winter 1867: Thomas Lynch becomes stated supply at New Hope after James Phillips
• Lynch, W. B. 2 entries, 1868–1873
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• Lynch, William 2 entries, 1910–1936
  • December 10, 1910: A. A. Kluttz advertises his University Bookstore to students in the Tar Heel
  • October 29, 1936: Dr. William Lynch, dentist in Chapel Hill and Durham for 36 years, dies

In books and archives 3 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.

• Lynch family family, 2 works
• Lynch, Kenneth Merrill, 1887-1974 1 work
• Lynch, W. B. (William Bingham), 1835-1911 1 work

In the historical records 316 records

82 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 75 marriages, 138 court minutes, 5 tax list entries and 14 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. Lynch marriages in full · Search the name in every collection