Orange County Indexed
The Roper surname
The Roper name in Orange County Indexed: 9 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1760 to 1837
most named in the 1830s
- Deeds 1760–1837
- Wills 1770–1782
- In the chronology
- 1918 to 1923 2 people in 2 entries, most in the 1910s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Terrells Creek (3), Haw River (1), Rattlesnake Creek (1)
- Spellings to try
- Roger, Romer
- Search beyond these records
- Roper 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 Roper there)
- Roper 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 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 9 records
4 deeds, 3 court minutes 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. Search the name in every collection
1760s
1770s
- 1770WillsWill of John Geer
1780s
- 1782WillsWill of Amos (x) Thomson or Thompson
