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Orange County Indexed

The Markham surname

The Markham name in Orange County Indexed: 171 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.

In the records
1762 to 1910 most named in the 1850s
  • Deeds 1762–1874
  • Records of enslaved people 1801–1863
  • Marriages 1861–1910
  • Wills 1862
In the chronology
1917 1 person in 1 entry
Places in its deeds and wills
New Hope Creek (45), Ellerbe Creek (9), Chapel Hill (4), New Hope (3), Northeast Creek (2), Fayetteville Road (2), Franklin Street (2), Morgan Creek (2)
Married into
Cheek 3, Pool 2, Trice 2, Blackwell 1, Carlton 1, O’Farrell 1, Hedgepeth 1, Holleman 1, Pearson 1, Parrish 1, Shaw 1, Saunders 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Barbee 10, Carlton 8, Trice 7, Herndon 6, Pearson 6, Leathers 6, Davis 4, Hutchins 4, Wilkerson 4, Gates 4, Borland 3, Leigh 3
People with a page here
Harold Cole Markham, W. D. (William David) Markham
Spellings to try
Markam
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 1 person

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 171 records

132 deeds, 12 records of enslaved people, 26 marriages and 1 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. Markham marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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