Orange County Indexed
The Tomlinson surname
The Tomlinson name in Orange County Indexed: 8 historical records, 4 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1871
most named in the 1750s
- Court minutes 1755–1805
- Deeds 1756
- Marriages 1871
- In the chronology
- 1837 to 1884 4 people in 10 entries, most in the 1840s
- In books and archives
- 2 people, born 1817 to 1862
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Deep River (1), Cape Fear Road (1)
- Married into
- Laurance 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Rice 2
- People with a page here
- Ruffin Wirt Tomlinson
- Spellings to try
- Tomison
- Search beyond these records
- Tomlinson 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 Tomlinson there)
- Tomlinson 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 4 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.
- Tomlinson, J. L. 2 entries, 1879–1884
- Tomlinson, Julius L. 1 entry, 1879
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Tomlinson, Ruffin W. 7 entries, 1837–1842
Show the 7 entries
- 1837: The university begins a course in national and constitutional law for seniors
- October 6, 1841: Elisha Mitchell shows his chemistry class an electromagnet
- July-September 1841: Students get up a singing school and a dancing school in Chapel Hill
- January 24-25, 1842: A Greek visitor named Castanis lectures at the university on Greece and Homer
- January 14, 1842: The literary societies stop printing their commencement addresses
- February 5-12, 1842: Students form the University Temperance Society
- February 10, 1842: The university's Vienna mineral cabinet arrives at Chapel Hill
- Tomlinson, S. F. 1 entry, 1874
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 8 records
2 deeds, 1 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. Tomlinson marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
1800s
- 1805Court minutesThomas Tomlinson was nonsuited against Jesses Rice’s executors.
1870s
- 1871MarriagesMarriage license: S F Tomlinson and Angela Laurance
