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The Rainey surname

The Rainey name in Orange County Indexed: 368 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.

In the records
1755 to 1886 most named in the 1810s
  • Deeds 1755–1840
  • Wills 1772–1843
  • Court minutes 1777–1815
  • Tax lists 1779–1790
  • Records of enslaved people 1800–1827
  • Marriages 1802–1886
In the chronology
1940 to 1955 2 people in 2 entries, most in the 1940s
Places in its deeds and wills
Haw River (19), Travis Creek (7), Little Alamance Creek (5), Gun Creek (3), Great Branch (3), New Hope Creek (3), Turnbull Creek (2), Stony Creek (2)
Married into
Barbee 1, Brown 1, Caroll 1, Cole 1, Couch 1, Guess 1, Halstead 1, Holt 1, Kirk 1, McBroom 1, Mebane 1, Rose 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Holt 44, Rhodes 11, Phillips 11, Mebane 11, King 10, Horn 8, Cable 8, Rose 6, Tate 6, Barbee 5, Moore 5, Murphey 5
Spellings to try
Raney, Railey, Rainy, Raines
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 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 368 records

84 deeds, 18 records of enslaved people, 16 marriages, 216 court minutes, 9 tax list entries and 25 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. Rainey marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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