Orange County Indexed
The Roark surname
The Roark name in Orange County Indexed: 20 historical records and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1782 to 1867
most named in the 1790s
- Marriages 1782–1867
- Court minutes 1788–1803
- Tax lists 1790
- Deeds 1794–1800
- Wills 1800–1801
- In the chronology
- 1784 to 1800 1 person in 2 entries, most in the 1780s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Little River (7), Buffalo Creek (1)
- Married into
- McMullen 1, Torrentine 1, Sharp 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Turrentine 5, Baldridge 3, Wortham 2, Wilson 2
- Spellings to try
- Rowark, Rhoark
- Search beyond these records
- Roark 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 Roark there)
- Roark 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 1 person
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 20 records
7 deeds, 3 marriages, 7 court minutes, 1 tax list entries and 2 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. Roark marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1780s
1790s
- 1790Court minutesThe court assigned sixteen named workers to the road supervised by James Moore.
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: James Roark (St. Mary’s District)
- 1794DeedsWilliam Walker Sr to William Roark, 17 February 1794
- 1795DeedsWilliam Roark to Edward Wortham, 19 November 1795
- 1797DeedsFrancis Baldridge to William Roark, 20 February 1797
- 1798Court minutesRobert Carson recovered damages and costs against Wm Fitch on appeal.
- 1798Court minutesDeed, Frances Baldridge to Wm Roark, proved by James Turrentine.
- 1799DeedsDaniel Turpentine to William Roark, 31 December 1799
- 1799Court minutesWill of Deborah Turrentine, proved by James Roark & Tho Wilson.
1800s
- 1800DeedsWilliam Roark to John Turrentine, 20 October 1800
- 1800DeedsWilliam Roark to John Turrentine, 20 October 1800
- 1800DeedsNorth Carolina to William Roark, 14 April 1800
- 1800MarriagesMarriage bond: William Roark and Anne McMullen
- 1800WillsWill of Deborah Turrentine
- 1801Court minutesDeed, William Roark to Edward Wortham, proved by William Newton.
- 1801WillsWill of Samuel (x) Turrentine
- 1803Court minutesJurors rejected Nathaniel Clark’s claim against George Carrington because Carrington’s setoff exceeded the demand.
1860s
- 1867MarriagesMarriage bond: John W Sharp and Sarah C Roark
