Orange County Indexed
The Ransom surname
The Ransom name in Orange County Indexed: 1 historical record, 3 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1770
most named in the 1770s
- Wills 1770
- In the chronology
- 1846 to 1956 3 people in 4 entries, most in the 1840s
- In books and archives
- 1 person
- Places in its deeds and wills
- middle fork of Rocky River (1)
- People with a page here
- Matt W. Ransom
- Spellings to try
- Ransome
- Search beyond these records
- Ransom 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 Ransom there)
- Ransom 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 3 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 books and archives 1 heading
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.
- Ransom, Matt W. 1 work
In the historical records 1 record
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. Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1770WillsWill of William Peggott
