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Gaston County 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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