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Orange County Indexed

The Waitt surname

The Waitt name in Orange County Indexed: 11 historical records, 4 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.

In the records
1837 to 1874 most named in the 1840s
  • Deeds 1837–1870
  • Records of enslaved people 1848
  • Marriages 1858–1874
In the chronology
1821 to 1925 4 people in 13 entries, most in the 1830s
In books and archives
1 family heading
Places in its deeds and wills
Chapel Hill (6), Bolin Creek (2), Franklin Street (1), Hillsborough (1), Rosemary Street (1), Hillsborough Street (1), Raleigh (1)
Married into
Reese 1, Scarlotte 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Hutchins 2
People with a page here
Kendall B. Waitt, Thomas Waitt
Spellings to try
Wait, Waite, Whitt, Waits
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 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.

In books and archives 1 heading

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 11 records

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

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1840s

1850s

1870s

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