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Orange County Indexed

The Rose surname

The Rose name in Orange County Indexed: 43 historical records, 11 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.

In the records
1768 to 1835 most named in the 1800s
  • Deeds 1768–1825
  • Marriages 1783–1835
  • Court minutes 1797–1803
  • Wills 1815
  • Records of enslaved people 1818–1825
In the chronology
1897 to 1994 11 people in 37 entries, most in the 1980s
In books and archives
1 family heading
Places in its deeds and wills
Haw River (2), Stinking Quarter Creek (1), Flat River (1)
Married into
Beckum 1, Dawson 1, Dening 1, Jones 1, McFarlin 1, Merritt 1, Rainey 1, Reeves 1, Smith 1, Weatherton 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Rainey 6, Holt 5, King 3, Sellars 3, Brown 2, Kime 2, Melone 2, Somers 2
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 11 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.

In the historical records 43 records

7 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 10 marriages, 23 court minutes and 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. Rose marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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