Orange County Indexed
The Steele surname
The Steele name in Orange County Indexed: 22 historical records, 5 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1838
most named in the 1800s
- Tax lists 1755
- Deeds 1789–1838
- Wills 1791–1802
- Court minutes 1792–1817
- Marriages 1799–1802
- In the chronology
- 1857 to 1984 5 people in 11 entries, most in the 1960s
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1922
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Northeast Creek (3), Back Creek (1), Stinking Quarter Creek (1), Flat River (1), Haw River (1), Cane Creek (1)
- Married into
- Gappin 1, Thompson 1, Turrentine 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Barbee 3, Thompson 3
- People with a page here
- Max Steele
- Spellings to try
- Steel, Steels
- Search beyond these records
- Steele 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 Steele there)
- Steele 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 5 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.
- Steele, Jim 1 entry, 1984
- Steele, Max 5 entries, 1956–1970
- Steele, W. L. 1 entry, 1874
- Steele, Walter L. 2 entries, 1857–1874
- Steele, Wilbur Daniel 2 entries, 1930–1937
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.
- Steele, Max, 1922-2005 2 works
In the historical records 22 records
6 deeds, 3 marriages, 9 court minutes, 1 tax list entries and 3 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. Steele marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: David Steele
1780s
1790s
1800s
- 1801MarriagesMarriage bond: Levi Thompson and Mary Steele
- 1802MarriagesMarriage bond: Daniel Turrentine and Elizabeth Steele
- 1802WillsWill of Sarah Herndon
- 1802WillsWill of Francis Moreland
- 1805DeedsGoin Barbee to Thomas Steele, 5 March 1805
1810s
1830s
Undated
- Court minutesJames Ball became overseer from Cain Creek to Meadow Meeting House, with hands Jos. Stalsworth, Wm. Rea, Jno. Rea and 22 others assigned.
- Court minutesJohn Caldwell prevailed in James Carson’s covenant action brought for Rich’d Clifton?.
- Court minutesSamuel Benton and William Duffy arbitrated James Christmas’s dispute with Mary Steele, ordering bond surrender, payment, divided costs an…
- Court minutesThomas Whithead became St Asaphs constable with Wm Steele and John Thompson as approved sureties.
- Court minutesDeed, Goin Barbee to Thomas Steele, proved by ??? Herndon.
- Court minutesDeed, Joseph Steele to James Thompson son of John Thompson Esqr, proved by John Whitted.
