Orange County Indexed
The Strayhorns surname
The Strayhorns name in Orange County Indexed: 10 historical records.
- In the records
- 1789 to 1800
most named in the 1790s
- Court minutes 1789–1800
- Often named with
- Rhodes 5, Strayhorn 4, Couch 4, Horne 2, Nelson 2, Raney 2
- Spellings to try
- Strayhorn, Strayhon, Strahorn, Streyhorn, Streyhorns
- Search beyond these records
- Strayhorns 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 Strayhorns there)
- Strayhorns 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 historical records 10 records
10 court minutes, 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
1780s
1790s
- 1790Court minutesThe court appointed Thomas Couch as road overseer, replacing James Strayhorn.
- 1791Court minutesThe court appointed Joshua Horne as road overseer, replacing Tho Couch.
- 1796Court minutesThe court released Samuel Couch from overseeing the road between Wm Rhodes’s and Gilbert Strayhorns because he worked on another road.
- 1796Court minutesThe court appointed James Strayhorn as road overseer, replacing Samuel Couch.
- 1799Court minutesThe court appointed David Raney as road overseer, replacing Thomas Nelson.
