Orange County Indexed
The Owens surname
The Owens name in Orange County Indexed: 21 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1886
most named in the 1810s
- Tax lists 1755
- Marriages 1795–1886
- Deeds 1797–1818
- Court minutes 1810
- Wills 1810
- In the chronology
- 1949 to 1963 2 people in 3 entries, most in the 1940s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Reeds Creek (4), Camp Creek (2), Cub Creek (1), Obeds Creek (1), Lick Branch (1)
- Married into
- Cates 1, Coleman 1, Jinkins 1, Pettigrew 1, Sears 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Lingo 3, McCauley 2
- Spellings to try
- Owins
- Search beyond these records
- Owens 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 Owens there)
- Owens 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 2 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 21 records
6 deeds, 5 marriages, 8 court minutes, 1 tax list entries 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. Owens marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: William Owens
1790s
1800s
1810s
- 1810Court minutesThe jury credited payments and awarded Alexander Russell damages; James Owens and Enoch Collins secured a stay of execution.
- 1810WillsWill of Only (x) Owens
- 1813DeedsWilliam Lingo to Levi Owens, 18 March 1813
- 1816MarriagesMarriage bond: William Owens and Rosa Sears
- 1817DeedsRobert Dickens estate by executor to Only Owens, 5 December 1817
- 1818DeedsLevi Owens to Thomas Cary, 9 November 1818
1880s
- 1886MarriagesMarriage license: F C Owens and Mary Coleman
Undated
- Court minutesThomas Barkley brought a petition against Nathaniel Owens.
- Court minutesDeed, Belitha Owens to Only Owens, proved by William Lingo.
- Court minutesDeed, John Owens to Matthew McCauley, proved by William Brewer.
- Court minutesDeed, Wm Waite, Wm & Samuel Dickens to Only Owens, proved by Belitha Owens.
- Court minutesThe court apprenticed Timothy Weaver to Robert Morrow for instruction in farming.
- Court minutesWilliam Weaver, charged as reputed father of Fanny Flinthim’s child, furnished a county indemnity bond with Reuben Owens.
- Court minutesDeed, Thomas Owens to Roland Cooke, proved by John Wilburn.
