Orange County Indexed
The McGowan surname
The McGowan name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records.
- In the records
- 1753 to 1771
most named in the 1770s
- Deeds 1753–1771
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Eno River (2), McGowans Creek (1)
- Often named with
- Hart 2
- Spellings to try
- McGown, McGowen, McCowan, McGoan
- Search beyond these records
- McGowan 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 McGowan there)
- McGowan 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 historical records 6 records
4 deeds and 2 court minutes, 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
1750s
1770s
Undated
- Court minutesThe court swore the named trial jurors.
- Court minutesFrancis Nash brought a debt claim against George McGowan.
