Orange County Indexed
The Mears surname
The Mears name in Orange County Indexed: 6 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1803 to 1909
most named in the 1800s
- Deeds 1803
- Records of enslaved people 1804
- Court minutes 1804
- Marriages 1909
- In the chronology
- 2022 1 person in 1 entry
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Eno River (1), Cates Creek (1), Hillsborough (1), Stillhouse Branch (1), Raleigh (1), University Road (1)
- Married into
- Jones 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Alves 3
- People with a page here
- Walter R. Mears
- Spellings to try
- Means, Meaks, Meares, Myars
- Search beyond these records
- Mears 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 Mears there)
- Mears 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 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.
- Mears, Walter R. 1 entry, 2022
In the historical records 6 records
1 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 1 marriages and 3 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Mears marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1800s
- 1803DeedsJames Mears to Gavin Alves, 9 June 1803
- 1804Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): James Mears to Gavin Alves, 29 February 1804
- 1804Court minutesBill of Sale, James Mears to Gavin Alves, proved by Benjamin Burnsides.
1900s
- 1909MarriagesMarriage license: Gaston W Mears and Louisa F Jones
