Orange County Indexed
The Shearer surname
The Shearer name in Orange County Indexed: 13 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1779 to 1865
most named in the 1810s
- Tax lists 1779
- Marriages 1782–1816
- Deeds 1791–1865
- Court minutes 1792
- Wills 1836–1837
- In the chronology
- 1840 to 1949 2 people in 3 entries, most in the 1840s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Travis Creek (2), Spoons Creek (1), Chapel Hill (1), Mallett Street (1)
- Married into
- Clap 1, Holstead 1, Rivers 1, Smith 1 · the marriages
- Spellings to try
- Sherer, Sharer, Shearen
- Search beyond these records
- Shearer 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 Shearer there)
- Shearer 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.
- Shearer, Andrew S. 1 entry, 1949
- Shearer, John B. 2 entries, 1840–1859
In the historical records 13 records
4 deeds, 4 marriages, 2 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. Shearer marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1770s
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Shearer John
1780s
- 1782MarriagesMarriage bond: Jacob Shearer and Caty Smith
1790s
1800s
1810s
- 1811MarriagesMarriage bond: Fredrick Shearer Jr and Peggy Clap
- 1815DeedsJohn Miller to Andrew Shearer, 7 January 1815
- 1816MarriagesMarriage bond: John Rivers and Hannah Shearer
1830s
- 1836WillsWill of John Long, Sr.
- 1837WillsWill of Stephen Ward
