Orange County Indexed
The Pope surname
The Pope name in Orange County Indexed: 44 historical records and 12 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1909
most named in the 1850s
- Deeds 1755–1874
- Wills 1772–1858
- Marriages 1808–1909
- In the chronology
- 1870 to 1993 12 people in 27 entries, most in the 1980s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- S Hico Creek (3), Swift Creek (1), Henry Days Branch (1), Stinking Quarter Creek (1)
- Married into
- Riley 3, Allison 2, Miles 2, Carlton 1, Castlebury 1, Cates 1, Davis 1, Ezzell 1, Hopkins 1, Hust 1, Lea 1, Lee 1 · the marriages
- Search beyond these records
- Pope 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 Pope there)
- Pope 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.
- Pope, Bunn, Jr. 1 entry, 1961
- Pope, C. T. 1 entry, 1956
- Pope, Claude 1 entry, 1957
- Pope, Claude T. 3 entries, 1956–1957
- Pope, G. M. 1 entry, 1926
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Pope, John 11 entries, 1971–1993
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- 1971–1994: Answering sexual assault in Chapel Hill, 1971–1994
- 1984–1989: Founding the Black Cultural Center, 1984–1989
- 1985–1990: Protests against CIA recruiting at UNC, 1985–1990
- November 22, 1985: UNC trustees vote 12-1 to recommend divesting from firms that deal significantly with South Africa
- October 27, 1988: Trustee John Pope questions the need for a Black Cultural Center
- February 26, 1988: UNC trustees call the anti-CIA protest violent and order an investigation
- September 1, 1989: UNC trustees endorse Chancellor Hardin's call for more financial freedom from the state
- 1990–1994: The movement for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, 1990–1994
- October 25, 1991: UNC trustees create an executive committee over one member's objection
- September 25, 1992: Trustee John Pope says date-rape complainants get little public sympathy
- March 26, 1993: UNC trustees defeat John Pope's resolution to stop considering a free-standing Black Cultural Center
- Pope, John S. 1 entry, 1870
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Pope, John W. 4 entries, 1985–1993
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- August 23, 1985: UNC trustees elect J. Clint Newton chairman
- by July 20, 1989: Governor James Martin leaves Barbara Perry off the UNC trustees, leaving one woman on the board
- 1990–1994: The movement for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, 1990–1994
- September 12, 1993: Former trustee John W. Pope runs a newspaper ad against the Black Cultural Center
- Pope, O. B. 1 entry, 1953
- Pope, Ruth 3 entries, 1930–1945
- Pope, Ruth P. 1 entry, 1950
- Pope, W. P. 1 entry, 1953
In the historical records 44 records
10 deeds, 30 marriages, 1 court minutes and 3 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. Pope marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
1770s
- 1772WillsWill of John Pryor
1800s
- 1808MarriagesMarriage bond: Uriah Pope and Susannah Robinson
1810s
1830s
1840s
- 1840WillsWill of Sarah Freeman
- 1841MarriagesMarriage bond: John Massey and Elizabeth Pope
- 1843DeedsHenry P Pope to Henry Malone trustee & John M Ray trustee & John McDade Jr trustee & Chalk Level School District Number 19, 10 August 1843
- 1845MarriagesMarriage bond: Henry Hust and Eliza Pope
- 1847MarriagesMarriage bond: William C Castlebury and Rachel Pope
- 1847MarriagesMarriage bond: Warden Riley and Hawkins Pope
- 1849MarriagesMarriage bond: Thomas Pope Jr and Margeret J McBroom
1850s
- 1852MarriagesMarriage bond: Thomas Pope Jr and Susan Catharine Riley
- 1853DeedsSamuel McBroom estate by commissioners to Martha F Pope & John W McBroom & Samuel L McBroom, 2 February 1853
- 1854MarriagesMarriage bond: Bluford Cates and Manurva Pope
- 1856DeedsBenjamin Wheeley to Henry P Pope, 10 September 1856
- 1858WillsWill of Thomas Pope
- 1859MarriagesMarriage bond: James Riley and Caroline Pope
- 1859MarriagesMarriage bond: Alfred M Parish and Frances Pope
- 1859MarriagesMarriage bond: John S Pope and Mary J McDade
1860s
- 1860DeedsSally Pope to Ruffin Tapp, 29 October 1860
- 1862MarriagesMarriage bond: A C Pope and Arilla J Lea
- 1867MarriagesMarriage bond: Anderson N Leigh and Leantine R Pope
- 1869MarriagesMarriage license: William W Hopkins and Martha F Pope
1870s
- 1870MarriagesMarriage license: George E Pope and Nannie M Carlton
- 1871MarriagesMarriage license: Lewis Dh Davis and Mary E Pope
- 1871MarriagesMarriage license: Sidney M Pope and Nannie C Lee
- 1872DeedsMary F Jordan & W H Jordan to Susan Pope, 25 July 1872
- 1872DeedsHenry P Pope & Mary S Pope to Samuel W Hughes, 26 April 1872
- 1872MarriagesMarriage license: Erasmus Pope and Jane Markham
- 1874DeedsHenry L McDade & Mary M McDade to Mary J Pope, 28 January 1874
- 1878MarriagesMarriage license: John W Allison and Fannie M Pope
1880s
- 1881MarriagesMarriage license: Rufus A Reid and Malvena Susan Pope
- 1884MarriagesMarriage license: James W Miles and Elizabeth C Pope
- 1886MarriagesMarriage license: Thomas H Pope and Pattie M Allison
- 1889MarriagesMarriage license: Henry Pope and Minnie Miles
1890s
- 1893MarriagesMarriage license: John F Smith and Sally L Pope
1900s
- 1900MarriagesMarriage license: E F Pope and Lula B Ezzell
- 1908MarriagesMarriage license: Roy Pope and Cora Roberts
- 1909MarriagesMarriage license: P Henry Pope and Fannie Stewart