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Orange County Indexed

The Oakley surname

The Oakley name in Orange County Indexed: 48 historical records and 7 people in the chronology.

In the records
1779 to 1907 most named in the 1870s
  • Tax lists 1779
  • Marriages 1815–1907
  • Deeds 1826–1873
  • Wills 1842–1846
In the chronology
1882 to 1993 7 people in 10 entries, most in the 1910s
Places in its deeds and wills
Dials Creek (1), Little River (1), Cane Creek (1), Hillsborough (1), Mason Hall (1)
Married into
Brown 2, Crabtree 2, Guess 2, Allen 1, Anderson 1, Andrews 1, Breeze 1, Carrington 1, Compton 1, Crisp 1, Dollar 1, Ewing 1 · the marriages
Spellings to try
Oakey
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 7 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 48 records

8 deeds, 37 marriages, 1 tax list entries and 2 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. Oakley marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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