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The Tatum surname

The Tatum name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records, 2 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1767 to 1879 most named in the 1780s
  • Deeds 1767–1787
  • Court minutes 1800
  • Records of enslaved people 1861
  • Marriages 1879
In the chronology
1934 to 1959 2 people in 8 entries, most in the 1950s
In books and archives
2 people, born 1913 to 1917
Places in its deeds and wills
Hillsborough (4), Queen Street (2), Wake Street (2), King Street (1), Little River (1)
Married into
Umstead 2 · the marriages
People with a page here
Jim Tatum
Spellings to try
Tatom
Search beyond these records

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.

In books and archives 2 headings

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 12 records

7 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 2 marriages and 2 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Tatum marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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Undated

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