Orange County Indexed
The Scales surname
The Scales name in Orange County Indexed: 1 historical record and 4 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1872
most named in the 1870s
- Marriages 1872
- In the chronology
- 1823 to 1988 4 people in 9 entries, most in the 1880s
- Married into
- Walker 1 · the marriages
- Spellings to try
- Sales
- Search beyond these records
- Scales 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 Scales there)
- Scales 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 4 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.
- Scales, A. M. 1 entry, 1887
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Scales, Alfred M. 6 entries, 1823–1888
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- early June 1823: The university graduates twenty-seven seniors and makes Bishop Ravenscroft a Doctor of Divinity
- September 30, 1884: Candidates for governor Scales and York debate at Hillsborough
- June 3, 1885: Trustees thank Paul C. Cameron for the loan that finished Memorial Hall
- 1886–1887: The killing of student Jacob Freeze and the trials, 1886–1887
- November 8-12, 1886: The grand jury indicts five Black men in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
- June 15, 1888: Governor Scales pardons J. N. Walker of Cedar Grove, jailed for selling liquor without a license
- Scales, Junius 1 entry, 1988
- Scales, Melvin J. 1 entry, 1945
In the historical records 1 record
1 marriages, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Scales marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1870s
- 1872MarriagesMarriage license: Albert Scales and Nancy Walker
