Orange County Indexed
The Yancey surname
The Yancey name in Orange County Indexed: 32 historical records, 4 people in the chronology and 2 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1763 to 1861
most named in the 1820s
- Deeds 1763–1857
- Court minutes 1804–1818
- Records of enslaved people 1812–1813
- Wills 1826–1860
- Marriages 1834–1861
- In the chronology
- 1819 to 1957 4 people in 8 entries, most in the 1820s
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading and 1 person
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Chapel Hill (5), Franklin Street (3), Great Alamance Creek (2), Gun Creek (2), Stony Creek (1), Shaddocks Creek (1), Branson Street (1), Market Street (1)
- Married into
- Caudle 1, Freeland 1, McCauley 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Higgie 4, Shofner 2, McCauley 2, Holt 2, Smith 2, Clapp 2
- Spellings to try
- Yancy
- Search beyond these records
- Yancey 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 Yancey there)
- Yancey 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.
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Yancey, Bartlett 4 entries, 1819–1828
Show the 4 entries
- 1819: Amendments drawn by Bartlett Yancey reshape the university's board of trustees
- June 1825: Trustees adopt by-laws creating a resident superintendent and a student uniform
- About 1827: Trustees name Badger, Yancey and Moore to draft a law against liquor and student credit at Chapel Hill
- September 8, 1828: The Orange bar meets at the court house to mourn Bartlett Yancey
- Yancey, Charles R. 2 entries, 1822–1825
- Yancey, Dorothy M. 1 entry, 1957
- Yancey, Mrs. T. N. 1 entry, 1956
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.
- Yancey family family, 1 work
- Yancey, Benjamin C. 1 work
In the historical records 32 records
18 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 3 marriages, 4 court minutes and 5 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. Yancey marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
1790s
1800s
- 1804Court minutesDeed, William Griffith to James Yancey, proved by Willie Yancey.
1810s
- 1812DeedsWilliam Higgie & Joel Yancey to Michael Shofner, 2 June 1812
- 1812Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): William Higgie, Joel Yancey to Michael Shofner, 2 June 1812
- 1813DeedsWilliam Higgie to Caroline Yancey, 1 September 1813
- 1813Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): William Higgie to Caroline Yancey, 1 September 1813
- 1817Court minutesJohn Albright and the other named men were appointed to patrol the captain’s district.
- 1818DeedsJoel Yancey to James Nicholson, 1 September 1818
- 1818Court minutesWilliam Murray and the other listed patrollers were approved for payment for their 1817 services.
1820s
- 1822DeedsWilliam McCauley to Charles R Yancey, 19 April 1822
- 1824DeedsEdmond R Pitt to Charles R Yancey, 18 May 1824
- 1824DeedsJacob Troxler to Joel C Yancey, 17 September 1824
- 1824DeedsCharles R Yancey to Christopher Babree Sr, 27 January 1824
- 1826WillsWill of Judy Clapp
- 1826WillsWill of John Strain
- 1827DeedsPatty Taylor to Abslom Yancey, 23 June 1827
- 1828DeedsJohn W McGee to William McCauley & Charles R Yancey & John Lewis, 22 February 1828
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
- 1860MarriagesMarriage bond: John F Freeland and Harritt B Yancey
- 1860WillsWill of Charles R Yancey
- 1861MarriagesMarriage bond: Washington Caudle and Charlotte Yancey
