Orange County Indexed
The Motley surname
The Motley name in Orange County Indexed: 3 historical records.
- In the records
- 1794 to 1836
most named in the 1790s
- Records of enslaved people 1794
- Wills 1794
- Deeds 1836
- Often named with
- ? 2
- Spellings to try
- Matley
- Search beyond these records
- Motley 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 Motley there)
- Motley 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 3 records
1 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people 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. Search the name in every collection
1790s
- 1794Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): William Beezely to James Motley, 22 November 1794
- 1794WillsBill of sale: William Bayley or Beezely ? to James Motley (Moseley ?)
