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Orange County Indexed

The Taylor surname

The Taylor name in Orange County Indexed: 1,232 historical records, 43 people in the chronology and 8 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1752 to 1911 most named in the 1810s
  • Deeds 1752–1873
  • Tax lists 1755–1790
  • Court minutes 1761–1818
  • Wills 1784–1885
  • Marriages 1784–1911
  • Records of enslaved people 1797–1861
In the chronology
1753 to 2022 43 people in 345 entries, most in the 1970s
In books and archives
1 family heading and 7 people, born 1769 to 1959
Places in its deeds and wills
Mebane (53), Eno River (31), Chapel Hill (19), Hillsborough (18), Flat River (15), Little River (14), Bolin Creek (14), King Street (11)
Married into
Allison 2, Brinkley 2, Cole 2, Davis 2, Hodge 2, King 2, Merritt 2, Parker 2, Riley 2, Wilson 2, Woods 2, Walker 2 · the marriages
Often named with
Mebane 71, Webb 56, Benton 41, McCauley 40, Thompson 35, Ray 21, Lytle 21, Turrentine 20, Allison 20, Campbell 20, Lewis 18, Nichols 18
People with a page here
George Vanderbeck Taylor, Isaac Montrose Taylor, James Cole Taylor, James Taylor, John Louis Taylor, Lawrence Taylor, N. Ferebee Taylor, Sarah A. Cole Taylor, Thomas H. Taylor
Spellings to try
Tailor, Tayloe, Taylar
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 43 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 8 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 1,232 records

284 deeds, 36 records of enslaved people, 107 marriages, 749 court minutes, 21 tax list entries and 35 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. Taylor marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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