Orange County Indexed

The Minor surname

The Minor name in Orange County Indexed: 40 historical records and 5 people in the chronology.

In the records

1789 to 1904 most named in the 1860s

Deeds 1789–1873
Court minutes 1807
Wills 1807
Marriages 1815–1904
Records of enslaved people 1834–1853

In the chronology

1861 to 1962 5 people in 5 entries, most in the 1860s

Places in its deeds and wills

Eno River (3), Hillsborough (3), Greensboro Road (2), King Street (1), Hillsboro (1), Tryon Street (1), Crooked Creek (1), Cane Creek (1)

Married into

Alston 2, Albright 1, Blackwood 1, Brewer 1, Crutchfield 1, Johnson 1, Scott 1, Teer 1, Snipes 1, Reeves 1, Walker 1, Peterson 1 · the marriages

Often named with

Sykes 8, Cates 4, Cheek 3, Crawford 3, Strowd 2, Scott 2, Clark 2, Stroud 2

Spellings to try

Miner, Manor

Search beyond these records

Minor 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 Minor there)
Minor 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 5 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 40 records

21 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 13 marriages, 3 court minutes 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. Minor marriages in full · Search the name in every collection