Records on Microfilm

[Microfilm copies of the following Gaston County records are in the North Carolina Collection located at the Main Library Branch in Gastonia]

Gaston County Clerk of Superior Court

• Administrators' bonds, 1868-1904;
• Administrators, executors and guardians, appointment of, 1869-1901;
• Apprentice bonds, 1869-1919;
• Bastardy bonds, 1869-1882;
• Cross index to wills, 1847-1963 (vols. 1-2);
• Equity minute docket, 1847-1868 [and] Equity enrollment docket, 1848-1866;
• Estate records, 1839-1928 (filed alphabetically).
• Guardian bonds, 1868-1908;
• Index to lunacy & inebriety, 1963-1969;
• Index to wills, devisees, 1963-1968;
• Index to wills, devisors, 1963-1968;
• Minute docket, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1847-1860;
• Minute docket, Superior Court, 1847-1885;
• Minutes, Superior Court, 1897-1917;
• Officials' bonds, 1868-1889;
• Orders and decrees, 1869-1901;
• Record of accounts, 1869-1912 (vols. 1-6);
• Record of estates, 1847-1863;
• Record of lunancy, 1899-1968 (vols. 1-10);
• Record of settlements, 1869-1908 [and] Record of resale of land, 1919-1930;
• Record of wills, 1847-1968 (vols. 1-16);
• Sales and inventories of estates, 1863-1869 [and] Record of resale of land, 1919-1930.

Gaston County Register of Deeds

• Record of marriage indices, 1848-1944;
• Marriage register, 1944-1991;
• Original marriage licenses, 1848-1936;
• Divorces, minute book, 1952-1965;
• Maiden names of divorced women, 1939-1963;
• Processioners record, 1847-1886;
• Record of deeds, 1847-1904 (vols. 1-56);
• Index to deeds and mortgages: grantee, 1846-1917 [A-L,M-Z];
• Index to deeds and mortgages: grantor, 1846-1917 [A-L,M-Z];
• Record of state grants, 1845-1891.

Gaston County Board of County Commissioners

• Minute dockets: commissioners, 1868-1890;
• Minute dockets, 1870-1892;
• Minutes, 1900-1913;
• Minute docket books, 1913-1985;

Miscellaneous

• Board of Education minutes, 1885-1964 (vols. 1-4);
• Record of elections, 1880-1882, 1897-1916, 1934-1960, 1962-1968;
• Tax lists, 1847-1859; 1860; 1863-1868.
• James W. Reid Diaries, Gaston County 1842-1843, 1846-1849 P.60.1P North Carolina State Archives

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