Orange County Indexed
The Rainy surname
The Rainy name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records.
- In the records
- 1798 to 1813
most named in the 1790s
- Court minutes 1798
- Marriages 1798–1813
- Married into
- Cannon 1, Davis 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Rainey 2, Strader 2
- Spellings to try
- Rainey, Rains, Raily
- Search beyond these records
- Rainy 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 Rainy there)
- Rainy 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 historical records 8 records
2 marriages and 6 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Rainy marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1790s
- 1798MarriagesMarriage bond: David Rainy and Nancy Davis
- 1798Court minutesDeed, Benjamin Rainey to Christian Huffhines, proved by William Rainy.
- 1798Court minutesDeed, Benj’n Rainy to Henry Strader, proved by Anthony Coble.
- 1798Court minutesDeed, Benjamin Rainy to Anthony Cable, proved by Henry Strader.
1810s
- 1813MarriagesMarriage bond: Benjamin A Rainy and Nancy Cannon
Undated
- Court minutesThe court directed the sheriff to summon grand jurors Lewis Kirk, James Carr Jun’r, James Newland and 32 others for the next county court.
- Court minutesJohn Caldwell prevailed in James Carson’s covenant action brought for Rich’d Clifton?.
- Court minutesDeed, Wm Rainey to Benj’n Rainy, proved by Mich’l B Rose.
