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Orange County Indexed

The Morrow surname

The Morrow name in Orange County Indexed: 486 historical records, 33 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.

In the records
1759 to 1911 most named in the 1800s
  • Deeds 1759–1873
  • Court minutes 1761–1818
  • Wills 1761–1863
  • Tax lists 1780–1790
  • Marriages 1782–1911
  • Records of enslaved people 1805–1864
In the chronology
1784 to 2023 33 people in 51 entries, most in the 1860s
In books and archives
1 person, born 1944
Places in its deeds and wills
Cane Creek (28), Fayetteville Road (13), Haw River (10), Stags Creek (8), Caterpillar Creek (6), Chapel Hill (6), Caterpillar Branch (4), Hillsborough Road (4)
Married into
Thompson 11, Jones 4, Bradshaw 3, Walker 3, Alston 2, Atwater 2, Crawford 2, Edwards 2, Mebane 2, Moore 2, Webb 2, Armstrong 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Mebane 12, Pickard 12, Thompson 11, Lindley 7, Moore 7, Crutchfield 6, Foust 5, Webb 5, Walker 4, Dixon 4, Edwards 4, Pinkerton 4
People with a page here
Daniel Morrow, Jefferson Morrow, Mary Lee Morrow, Thomas Jefferson Morrow, Washington Morrow
Spellings to try
Murrow, Morow, Morro, Marrow, Morlow
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 33 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 books and archives 1 heading

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.

In the historical records 486 records

95 deeds, 8 records of enslaved people, 85 marriages, 271 court minutes, 5 tax list entries and 22 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. Morrow marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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