Orange County Indexed
The Polk surname
The Polk name in Orange County Indexed: 3 historical records, 12 people in the chronology and 5 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1764
most named in the 1760s
- Court minutes 1764
- In the chronology
- 1775 to 1997 12 people in 42 entries, most in the 1840s
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading and 4 people, born 1758 to 1837
- People with a page here
- James K. Polk, L. L. (Leonidas La Fayette) Polk, Leonidas Polk, William Polk
- Search beyond these records
- Polk 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 Polk there)
- Polk 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 12 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.
- Polk, George W. 1 entry, 1832
- Polk, James K. 13 entries, 1799–1997
- Polk, Leonidas 2 entries, 1885–1905
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Polk, Leonidas 5 entries, 1924–1930
Show the 5 entries
- 1924–1962: Chapel Hill against billboards and street banners, 1924–1962
- March 31, 1925: Gutzon Borglum's Gerrard Hall talk raises money for Orange County's Confederate veterans
- March to May 1925: Clubwomen and Boy Scouts clear advertising signs from the Chapel Hill-Durham road
- March 30, 1927: United Daughters of the Confederacy hold their district convention in Chapel Hill
- September 10, 1930: Chapel Hill's UDC chapter decides to found a University scholarship
- Polk, Leonidas L. 2 entries, 1881–1887
- Polk, Sarah 2 entries, 1802–1847
- Polk, Sarah Childress 1 entry, 1847
- Polk, Thomas 1 entry, 1775
- Polk, William 16 entries, 1796–1833
- Polk, William 1 entry, 1832
- Polk, William H. 1 entry, 1832
- Polk, William T. 2 entries, 1917–1937
In books and archives 5 headings
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.
- Polk Family family, 1 work
- Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849 6 works
- Polk, L. L. (Leonidas La Fayette), 1837-1892 2 works
- Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864 2 works
- Polk, William, 1758-1834 1 work
In the historical records 3 records
3 court minutes, 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
