Orange County Indexed
The Townsend surname
The Townsend name in Orange County Indexed: 12 historical records and 3 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1765 to 1875
most named in the 1780s
- Deeds 1765–1808
- Tax lists 1779
- Wills 1784
- Marriages 1786–1875
- Court minutes 1810
- In the chronology
- 1971 to 1990 3 people in 4 entries, most in the 1980s
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Little River (1), Eno River (1)
- Married into
- Allen 1, Dixon 1, Oakley 1, Reaves 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Dixon 2
- Spellings to try
- Townsey, Townsand
- Search beyond these records
- Townsend 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 Townsend there)
- Townsend 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 3 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.
- Townsend, Mary 2 entries, 1971–1990
- Townsend, Newman A., Jr. 1 entry, 1981
- Townsend, Robert 1 entry, 1988
In the historical records 12 records
3 deeds, 4 marriages, 3 court minutes, 1 tax list entries and 1 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. Townsend marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1770s
- 1779Tax listsThe 1779 tax list: Townsend Joseph
1780s
- 1784WillsWill of Philip Dossett
- 1786MarriagesMarriage bond: Joseph Townsend and Heather Dixon
1790s
1800s
1810s
- 1810Court minutesDeed, Joseph Townsend to Adam Dixon, proved by Andrew Gray.
- 1817MarriagesMarriage bond: Joshua Townsend and Polly Reaves
1820s
- 1826MarriagesMarriage bond: John Townsend and Beletha Oakley
1870s
- 1875MarriagesMarriage license: Prince Allen and Martha A Townsend
