Orange County Indexed
The O'Kelly surname
The O'Kelly name in Orange County Indexed: 15 historical records and 3 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1792 to 1901
most named in the 1810s
- Deeds 1792–1858
- Court minutes 1798–1812
- Marriages 1811–1901
- Wills 1828
- In the chronology
- 1778 to 1924 3 people in 8 entries, most in the 1910s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- New Hope Creek (5), Northeast Creek (1), Long Branch (1)
- Married into
- Allen 1, Counsel 1, Praight 1, Shepherd 1, Strayhorn 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Massey 3, Halliburton 2
- Spellings to try
- O'Kelley
- Search beyond these records
- O'Kelly 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 O'Kelly there)
- O'Kelly 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 3 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.
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O'Kelly, Durward 4 entries, 1916–1924
Show the 4 entries
- 1916–1924: Chapel Hill's movie houses and the Pickwick fire, 1916–1924
- 1918–1924: Henry Guthrie's West Franklin Street property and Black-owned businesses, 1918–1924
- about 1918: Henry Guthrie opens a movie theatre on West Franklin Street
- July 4, 1924: The Standard, a movie theatre owned by and for Black residents, opens on West Franklin Street
- O'Kelly, James 3 entries, 1778–1844
- O'Kelly, Nelson 1 entry, 1868
In the historical records 15 records
5 deeds, 5 marriages, 4 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. O'Kelly marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1790s
1810s
1820s
1850s
1870s
- 1871MarriagesMarriage license: Alston Okelly and Lucy Y Counsel
- 1876MarriagesMarriage license: Edmund Allen and Jane Okelly
- 1879MarriagesMarriage license: Jas Okelly and Merve Shepherd
1900s
- 1901MarriagesMarriage license: Reubin Okelly and Getsie Strayhorn
