Orange County Indexed
The Stanley surname
The Stanley name in Orange County Indexed: 23 historical records, 6 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1763 to 1897
most named in the 1860s
- Deeds 1763–1865
- Court minutes 1766
- Marriages 1830–1897
- In the chronology
- 1789 to 1984 6 people in 11 entries, most in the 1960s
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1940
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Hillsborough (6), Queen Street (3), Wake Street (2), Eno River (1)
- Married into
- Cole 2, Boone 1, Crabtree 1, Hicks 1, Murray 1, Pendergrass 1, Turner 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Picket 3, Strudwick 2, Green 2, Standifer 2
- People with a page here
- Charles B. Stanley
- Spellings to try
- Staley, Stanly, Stailey, Stayley
- Search beyond these records
- Stanley 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 Stanley there)
- Stanley 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 6 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.
- Stanley, Anna 1 entry, 1789
- Stanley, Charles B. 1 entry, 1931
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Stanley, Edwin 3 entries, 1960
- April 6, 1960: Federal court refuses to throw out the Vickers school suit but drops the board members as defendants
- December 20, 1960: Final arguments are heard in Stanley Vickers's suit against the Chapel Hill schools
- August 1960: The Vickers suit is amended to seek a place at Chapel Hill Junior High
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Stanley, Edwin M. 3 entries, 1961–1971
- August 4, 1961: Federal court rules Chapel Hill denied Stanley Vickers a junior high transfer because of his race
- February 21, 1967: A three-judge federal court hears arguments in Dickson v. Sitterson at Greensboro
- by June 18, 1971: Federal court strikes down North Carolina's one-year residency rule in a suit against the Orange County elections board
- Stanley, John 3 entries, 1978–1984
- Stanley, Myrtle Ray 1 entry, 1931
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 23 records
10 deeds, 8 marriages and 5 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Stanley marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1830s
1850s
- 1851MarriagesMarriage bond: James Stanley and Catherine Cole
1860s
- 1862DeedsEdmund Strudwick to Edward R Stanley, 8 October 1862
- 1862DeedsEdmund Strudwick to Edward R Stanley, 12 February 1862
- 1862DeedsWilliam Newman to Edward R Stanley, 16 April 1862
- 1862DeedsHenry N Brown to Edward R Stanley, 5 March 1862
- 1863DeedsAmelia Latta & Elizabeth Latta & Arrena Latta & Francis F Latta & Jane Latta & Rachel Latta to Edward R Stanley & George Green, 19 January 1863
- 1864DeedsJohn W Norwood to Edward R Stanley & George Green, 12 January 1864
- 1865DeedsEdward R Stanley to David A Robertson, 10 November 1865
1870s
- 1876MarriagesMarriage license: Samuel Stanley and Nannie T Cole
- 1878MarriagesMarriage license: William N Hicks and Janetta Stanley
1880s
- 1881MarriagesMarriage license: Jno T Stanley and Aurelia Boone
- 1882MarriagesMarriage license: John W Crabtree and Laney Stanley
1890s
- 1893MarriagesMarriage license: C W Stanley and Mary Jane Pendergrass
- 1897MarriagesMarriage license: W T Turner and Lena H Stanley
Undated
- Court minutesNash and McNair brought a debt claim against William Ballard and Zackariah Stanley.
- Court minutesDepositions of Benj. Jones and Wm. Stanley were ordered in Wm. Picket’s case against Israel Standifer.
- Court minutesWm. Stanley’s immediate deposition at Blue House was ordered for Wm. Picket against Izrael Standifer.
- Court minutesFollowing default in slander, jurors assessed nominal damages and costs for Jacob Shearer against Rich’d Stanley.
