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The Porterfield surname

The Porterfield name in Orange County Indexed: 41 historical records.

In the records
1782 to 1912 most named in the 1850s
  • Marriages 1782–1912
  • Deeds 1800–1856
  • Records of enslaved people 1856
  • Wills 1890
Places in its deeds and wills
Little River (1)
Married into
Bradsher 2, Clayton 2, Jordan 2, Parker 2, Wilson 2, Allison 1, Anderson 1, Barns 1, Birch 1, Bows 1, Bradshaw 1, Breeze 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Jordan 3, Burch 3, Breeze 2
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 historical records 41 records

8 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 30 marriages, 1 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. Porterfield marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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