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The Yates surname

The Yates name in Orange County Indexed: 11 historical records, 5 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.

In the records
1816 to 1863 most named in the 1820s
  • Marriages 1816–1824
  • Wills 1825
  • Records of enslaved people 1825–1829
  • Deeds 1825–1863
In the chronology
1891 to 1955 5 people in 5 entries, most in the 1940s
In books and archives
1 person, born 1904
Places in its deeds and wills
Little River (1), Chapel Hill (1), Franklin Street (1)
Married into
Boothe 1, Marcom 1, Rich 1 · the marriages
Often named with
Terry 2
People with a page here
David Watt Yates
Spellings to try
Yeates
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 5 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

5 deeds, 2 records of enslaved people, 3 marriages 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. Yates marriages in full · Search the name in every collection

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1860s

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