Orange County Indexed
The Sorrell surname
The Sorrell name in Orange County Indexed: 4 historical records and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1829
most named in the 1820s
- Wills 1829
- In the chronology
- 1905 to 1927 2 people in 5 entries, most in the 1920s
- Spellings to try
- Sorrel
- Search beyond these records
- Sorrell 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 Sorrell there)
- Sorrell 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.
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Sorrell, W. B. 5 entries, 1905–1927
Show the 5 entries
- 1905: The Peoples Bank is organized
- by 1905: W. B. Sorrell keeps a jewelry and optometry shop on East Franklin Street
- 1927: The Carolina Theatre and Jeff's Campus Confectionery open in the new Sorrell building
- 1927–1980: The Sorrell building theatre: Carolina, Village and Varsity, 1927–1980
- April 1927: W. B. Sorrell begins building a moving-picture theatre on Franklin Street
- Sorrell, William B. 1 entry, 1927
In the historical records 4 records
3 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. Search the name in every collection
1820s
- 1829WillsWill of Richard (x) Marcum
