Duplin County, North Carolina Genealogy

United States

North Carolina

Duplin County

Guide to Duplin County, North Carolina ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

North Carolina Online Genealogy Records

County Facts County seat: Kenansville Organized: March 17, 1749 Parent County(s): New Hanover Neighboring Counties Jones • Lenoir • Onslow • Pender • Sampson • Wayne See County Maps Courthouse Location Map

County Information

Description

Duplin County is located in the southeastern portion of North Carolina and was named for Thomas Hay, Lord Duplin, a member of the English Board of Trade and Plantations.

County Courthouse

Duplin County North Carolina
118 Duplin Street
Kenansville, NC 28349
Phone: 910-296-2108
Duplin County Website

Register of Deeds has birth and death records from 1913, marriage records from 1749, maps and land records from 1749, and business records from 1899.
Clerk Superior Court has probate and court records.

Duplin County, North Carolina Record Dates

Information for this chart was taken from various sources, often containing conflicting dates. This information should be taken as a guide and should be verified by contacting the county and/or the state government agency.

Known Beginning Dates for Government County Records
Birth*	Marriage	Death*	Court	Land	Probate	Census
1913	1749	1913	1784	1749	1759	1784
*Statewide registration for births and deaths started in 1913. General compliance by 1920.

Record Loss

Many court records are missing. For suggestions about research in places that suffered historic record losses, see: Burned Counties. By Michael John Neill at 24-7 Family History Circle. When the Records are Gone. By Arlene Eakle at Arlene Eakle's Tennessee Blog. Burned Counties Research in the FamilySearch Research Wiki. List of counties in the United States with Record Loss

Boundary Changes

1749 Duplin County was created 17 March 1749 from New Hanover County. County seat: Kenansville For animated maps illustrating North Carolina county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation North Carolina County Boundary Maps" (1664-1965) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Populated Places

For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

Towns
Beulaville Calypso Faison Greenevers	Harrells Kenansville Magnolia Mount Olive	Rose Hill Teachey Wallace Warsaw
Unincorporated communities
Chinquapin Fountaintown	Hallsville Kornegay	Murphey Pasley
Census-designated places
Potters Hill
Townships
Albertson Cypress Creek Faison Glisson Island Creek	Kenansville Limestone Magnolia Rockfish	Rose Hill Smith Warsaw Wolfscrape

History Timeline

Duplin County was created in 1750 from the northern part of New Hanover County and is named for Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, later 9th Earl of Kinnoull. The earliest immigrants were Welsh, who arrived in the 1700′s, and soon followed by German Palatines and the Swiss in the 1730′s and 1740′s. The Scotch-Irish arrived in 1736 with Henry McCulloch, a wealthy London merchant, to settle on a rich and fertile 71,160-acre land granted to him from the British Crown. The French Huguenots and English, who migrated from Virginia along with Scottish Highlanders who came from the upper Cape Fear region, also were among the earliest settlers to the area along with African-Americans. The early settlements were primarily along the river and larger creeks as these were the best means of transportation. Henry McCulloch established several settlements. One on the east bank of the Northeast Cape Fear River named Sarecta, became Duplin’s first incorporated town in 1787. Another settlement was established on the west side of the river on Goshen Swamp, and a third at a place referred to as Golden Grove, later to become the Town of Kenansville. (Source: Duplin County History).

Resources

Bible Records

• Bible Records at North Carolina Digital Archives - index and images
• Duplin County, NC Bibles at USGenWeb Archives

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Duplin County, North Carolina online and in print
Tombstone Transcriptions Online	Findagrave.com NCGenWeb NCGenWeb Archives Tombstone Project North Carolina Cemeteries Billion Graves
Tombstone Transcriptions in Print (Often more complete)	FamilySearch Library WorldCat
List of Cemeteries in the County	Findagrave.com Billion Graves FamilySearch Places
See North Carolina Cemeteries for more information

• North Carolina, Historical Records Survey, Cemetery Inscription Card Index at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images Also at: Ancestry ($)

Census Records

Historical populations
Census	Pop.	%±
1790	5,663	—
1800	6,796	20.0%
1810	7,863	15.7%
1820	9,744	23.9%
1830	11,291	15.9%
1840	11,182	−1.0%
1850	13,514	20.9%
1860	15,784	16.8%
1870	15,542	−1.5%
1880	18,773	20.8%
1890	18,690	−0.4%
1900	22,405	19.9%
1910	25,442	13.6%
1920	30,223	18.8%
1930	35,103	16.1%
1940	39,739	13.2%
1950	41,074	3.4%
1960	40,270	−2.0%
1970	38,015	−5.6%
1980	40,952	7.7%
1990	39,995	−2.3%
2000	49,063	22.7%
2010	58,505	19.2%
Source: "Wikipedia.org".

Church Records

• 1700-1970 North Carolina, Church Records, 1700-1970 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Baptist

• Bear Marsh Constituted 1763.
• Bear Swamp Constituted 1791.
• Bull Tail aka Wells Chapel, Wallace, N.C. Established 1756. Official website.
• Great Cohara Constituted 1759.
• Muddy Creek Constituted 1792.
• Naughungo Established by 1808.

Church of England

• St. Gabriel's Parish Established 1749.

Surviving records include Warden's Records of the Poor (1799-1817), which are kept at the North Carolina State Archives. Microfilm copy: FS Library Film 19974.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Ward and Branch Records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Albertson

Presbyterian
Scots-Irish immigrants established Presbyterian churches in colonial Duplin County.

• Grove Church Founded about 1737.
• Rockfish Church Organized about 1756.

List of Churches and Church Parishes

• FamilySearch Places
  

Court Records

• 1784-1852 Court Minutes, 1784-1852(*); County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1815-1930 Minutes, 1815-1930(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1824-1868 Minutes, 1824-1868(*); Court of Equity at FamilySearch Catalog — images
• 1872-1938 Orders and Decrees, 1872-1938(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1872-1962 Special Proceedings, 1872-1962(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1944-1961 Maiden Names of Divorced Women and Index to Former Husbands, 1944-1961(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images

Directories

• Of(f)icial Directory of Duplin County, North Carolina(*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Ethnic, Political, and Religious Groups

African Americans

• 1862-1870 North Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner Records, 1862-1870 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1863-1872 North Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only
• Melton, Carol K.W. and Joseph W. Wescott III. 1870 Federal Census: The African American Population of Duplin County, North Carolina. Rose Hill, N.C.: Duplin County Historical Foundation, 2000. FS Library Book 975.6382 X28m 1870. Published records of the first U.S. Federal census enumerating freed slaves taken in 1870.
• Duplin Register of Deeds, African-American cohabitation records

Funeral Homes

• Garris Funeral Home, Inc. in Mount Olive.
• Jack A. Hawes Funeral Home and Cremations in Warsaw.
• J.B. Rhodes Funeral Home and Cremations, Inc. in Warsaw.
• Matthews Funeral Service, Inc. in Wallace.
• Padgett Funeral and Cremation Services in Wallace.
• Quinn-McGowen Funeral Home in Wallace.
• Rose Hill Funeral Home, Inc in Rose Hill.
• Serenity Funeral Home in Beulaville.
• Tyndall Funeral Home in Mount Olive.

Genealogies

• Alderman - Stone, Spessard. Lineage of John Carlton. [Wauchula, Fla.?]: S. Stone, 1991. FS Library Book 929.273 C197s
• Bradley - Clegg, Reed L. Richard Bradley and Descendants: Lives and Times of Richard, Thomas, Henry, Samuel Carroll, James Harvey Bradley Families. Salt Lake City, Utah: R.L. Clegg Publishers, (1999?). FS Library Book 929.273 B728c
• Broadhurst - Wooten, David Robert. We All Become Forefathers: Genealogies of the Wooten, Boykin, Whitaker and Broadhurst Families. 1993. FS Library Book 929.273 W889wdr
• Bullard - Bullard, Spencer Ardell. William and Nathan Bullard Family: History and Genealogy. Lakewood, Colo.: S.A. Bullard, 2004. FS Library Book 929.273 B872bs
• Carlton - Morris, Scott. Liberty Worth Fighting For: The Sacrifice of a South Georgia Wiregrass Family in the War Between the States. Sale City, Ga.: S. Morris, 1990. FS Library Book 929.273 L272m
• Carlton - Stone, Spessard. Lineage of John Carlton. [Wauchula, Fla.?]: S. Stone, 1991. FS Library Book 929.273 C197s; 1998 edition: FS Library Book 929.273 C197s 1998
• Churchill - Churchill, Levis Allen and Dorothy Churchill Moye Sumrell. Churchill/Churchwell, Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt Counties, North Carolina. Greenville, N.C.: L.A. Churchill, 1993. FS Library Book 929.273 C473cL
• Churchwell - See Churchill.
• Clark Crook, Billie Louise and Simeon English Clark. Our Clark Family: Or Texas Clarks. Austin, Texas: B.L. Clark, 1957. FS Library Book 929.273 C547co
• Dickson - Carr, James Ozborn. The Dickson Letters. Wilmington, N.C.: n.p., 1933. FS Library Book 921.73 D561a 1933
• Flowers - Hendrix, Mary Louise Flowers. Flowers Kith and Kin: A Record of the Descendants of Thomas Flowers through Henry and Nancy Adams Flowers. Jackson, Miss.: Hendrix, 1943. FS Library Book 929.273 F669h
• Fowler - Hollis, Jane Cook. Immigrated to Tennessee: Chronicles of a Fowler Family. Memphis, Tenn.: J.C. Hollis, 1991. FS Library Book 929.273 F829i
• Grady - Grady, Benjamin, Louis Carr Hendry and Henry A. Grady. John Grady (1710-1787) of Dobbs and Duplin, with Some of His Descendants. Wilson, N.C.: P.D. Gold Publishing, 1930. FS Library Film 1321187 Item 8
• Gulley - John, Paul. John Gulley Genealogy, a Planter in Alabama and Arkansas and His Descendants: Also the Families of Bizzell, Godley, Ligon, Mendenhall, Purifoy and Others of England and Colonial America. Houston, Texas: P. John, 1991. FS Library Book 929.273 G951j
• Hutchison - Hutchison: Family Records. MSS. Microfilmed 1974. FS Library Film 288187
• Lanier Ingersoll, Louise. Lanier: A Genealogy of the Family Who Came to Virginia and Their French Ancestors in London. Washington, D.C.: Goetz Printing Company, 1965. At various libraries (WorldCat).
• Lanier - Morris, Scott. Liberty Worth Fighting For: The Sacrifice of a South Georgia Wiregrass Family in the War Between the States. Sale City, Ga.: S. Morris, 1990. FS Library Book 929.273 L272m
• Lewis - Lewis, J.D. My Neck of the Woods: The Lewis Families of Southeastern North Carolina and Northeastern South Carolina. Little River, S.C.: J.D. Lewis, 2002. FS Library Book 929.273 L585Ljd; CD-ROM no. 1036
• McCallop - Headley, Katy McCaleb. MacKillop (McCaleb) Clan of Scotland and the United States. 2 vols. Chillicothe, Mo.: E.P. Ellsberry, 1964. FS Library Book 929.273 M124h
• McCanne - McCanne, Elizabeth C. A Brief Autobiography. Typescript. Microfilmed 1994. FS Library Film 1698051 Item 47
• Merritt - Merritt, Edward and Leora Hiatt McEachern. The Merritts of Sampson and Duplin Counties, North Carolina. Typescript, 1968. FS Library Film 874721 Item 4
• Middleton - Brown, Leslie H. "John Middleton of Hampton, Va., and Onslow County, N.C.," The American Genealogist, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Jul. 1979):161-162. FS Library 973 D25aga v. 55
• Parrish - Lytton, Eugene R. Josiah Parrish, 1771-1846, Migrated to Alachua County, Florida 1823, Volunteer Soldier in the War of 1812. Typescript. Microfilmed 2001. FS Library Film 1425373 Item 20
• Powell - Andrea, Leonardo. Powell MSS., 1962, Photocopy, Polk County Historical Library, Bartow, Fla. FS Library Film 978080 Item 2
• Sheffield - Hussey, Ray Walter. Descendants of John Hussey and Barbara Sheffield. Kernville, Calif.: R.W. Hussey, 1986. FS Library Book 929.273 H965hu
• Sloan - Sloan, Stanley E. John Sloan, ca. 1783-ca. 1863: Descendants & Allied Families. Tucson, Ariz.: S. Sloan, 1988. FS Library Film 1685453 Item 1
• Sloan - Bryant, Catherine M. The Dixon Sloan Family of Colquitt County, Ga.: Includes Families of Laura Sloan Pelham, W. P. Sloan, Amanda Sloan Webb, Oscar N. Sloan, Ella Sloan Bryant. n.p.: C. Bryant, 1988. FS Library Book 1685453 Item 1
• Smith - Draughon, Eleanor Daphine Smith. Descendants of Elijah Smith of Duplin County, North Carolina. Durham, N.C.: E.D.S. Smith, 1971. FS Library Book 929.273 Sm55d
• Sullivan - Pringle, Elizabeth Muir. Sullivans of Duplin County, North Carolina. 2 vols. Ogden, Utah: E.M. Pringle, 2007. FamilySearch Digital Library; FS Library Books 929.273 Su53p v. 1, v. 2; CD-ROM no. 4367.
• Wade - Rosser, John C. Some Descendants of Joseph and Mary Wade of Duplin County, North Carolina Godwin, N.C.: J. Rosser, 1992. FS Library Book 929.273 W119rj
• Ward - Ward, James Mayfield. The Noble Family of Ward. n.p.: J.M. Ward, 1975. FS Library Book 929.273 W21wj
• Watkins - Watkins, William Bismarck. The Watkins Family of North Carolina: Particularly Enumerating Those Descendants of Levin Watkins of Duplin County, N.C., Who Emigrated to Alabama and Mississippi Early in the Nineteenth Century. Jackson, Tenn.: McCowat-Mercer, [1915]. FS Library Film 1321283 Item 9
• Wells - Wells, James W. Descendants of Jacob Wells of Duplin County, North Carolina. Benton, Ark.: n.p., 1973. FS Library Film 1318198 Item 7
• Wilkins - Murphy, Nathan W. Early Families of Muhlenburg County, Kentucky: Vincent, Wright, McElwain, Wilkins and Jarvis Hanson, Ky.: David W. Murphy & Associates, 1999. FS Library Book 929.273 V743m
• Williamson - Wise, Bel. Williamson Relatives. Typescript, 1977. FS Library Film 1697644 Item 38

Land and Property Records

The Duplin County Register of Deeds Office has a complete record of all property conveyances dating back to 1750 when the county was founded. All of the indexes to Duplin County property records from 1784 thru the present are available for searching both at the Register of Deeds Office and also remotely via their internet website: rod.duplincounty.org. Additionally, all of the property records books have been scanned and are available for viewing and downloading with the exception of books 20, 22, 33, 43, 106, 249, 276, and 318. These books are however available at the Register of Deeds Office.

Additionally the Register Of Deeds Office has a searchable map database that shows the exact location of the original land patents for the county. Look for Land Grant Maps to use this database complete with USGS Maps!

A number of land records have been transcribed and are available at the following sites:

Online Land Indexes and Records

• North Carolina Land Grants at NC Historical Records Online - index, requires free account to view images
• NCGenWeb Deeds Database- perform a Search of the deeds
• Duplin County Deeds at NCGenWeb Archives
• The FamilySearch Catalog lists some land records in Duplin County, North Carolina Genealogy. (In the Catalog, click on the link to a title to see details.) Some of the books – and others – may be on WorldCat, or available at public libraries.

Maps and Gazetteers

Click a neighboring county
for more resources

• FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Military Records

Revolutionary War

• 1778-1833 Delamar Transcripts of Revolutionary War Petitions at North Carolina Genealogical Society - index ($)
• 1779-1782 North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers 1779-1782 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Civil War

• 1861-1865 North Carolina, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1861-1865 North Carolina, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1861-1865 U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
• 1861-1865 U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
• 1885-1953 North Carolina, Confederate Soldiers and Widows Pension Applications, 1885-1953 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1885 and 1901 1885 and 1901 Confederate Pension Applications at North Carolina Digital Collections - index and images

Regiments. Men in Duplin County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Duplin County:

- 3rd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry

- 12th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, 1st Company C

- 1st Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry, Company I

- 2nd Regiment, North Carolina Junior Reserves, Company A

- 3rd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company B

- 3rd Regiment, North Carolina State Troops, Company B

- 8th Battalion, North Carolina Cavalry (Partisan Rangers), 5th Company

- 8th Regiment, North Carolina Senior Reserves, Captain Henry Broadhurst's Company

World War I

• 1914-1918 World War I Papers at North Carolina Digital Collections - index and images
• 1917-1919 North Carolina, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

World War II

• 1939-1945 World Ward II Papers at North Carolina Digital Collections - index and images
• 1940-1948 North Carolina, Discharge and Statement of Service Records, 1940-1948 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Newspapers

• North Carolina Newspapers at DigitalNC
• 1799-1893 Duplin County marriages. May be included throughout Carrie Broughton's 6-volume index of the Raleigh Register & State Gazette newspaper (1799-1893). Marriages are listed by year and PDF files are searchable. Available on the North Carolina Digital Collections website.
• Duplin County deaths. List of county area deaths reported in various newspapers; dates range from late 1700s to 1900s.
• Duplin County newspapers. Listing of newspapers published in the county & libraries that hold them. (Library of Congress). If you find a paper of interest on microfilm, you may be able to request it via Interlibrary Loan with your local public library.
• Duplin County residents in the newspaper. Name listing of people from the county as located in misc. newspaper articles; time span varies. Articles indexed in the NC People in the Papers database from the NCGenWeb project.
• North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project. Full-text papers from 1752-1890s. Search for your Duplin County ancestors to see if they were mentioned.
• 1800s-Current Nebraska, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-Current at Ancestry — index & images ($)

Obituaries

• Duplin County Obituaries (USGenWeb Archives)

Other Records

County Records

• 1800-1968 North Carolina, County Records, 1833-1970 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images. (incomplete)

Voter Registration

• 1868-1898 North Carolina, Voter Registration Records, 1868-1898 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Probate Records

Online Probate Indexes and Records

• 1660-1790 North Carolina Will Abstracts 1660-1790 at Ancestry ($)
• 1663-1789 Secretary of State Wills at North Carolina Digital Collections - index and images
• 1663-1978 Wills and Estate Papers (Duplin County), 1663-1978(*); at FamilySearch Catalog — images
• 1663-1979 North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1665-1998 North Carolina Wills and Probate Records 1665-1998 at Ancestry ($)
• 1720-1960 Will Books A to F and 1 to 8 (1720-1960) at FamilySearch.org - How to Use this Collection; images only (by County)
• 1735-1970 North Carolina Probate Records 1735-1970 at FamilySearch- How to Use this Collection; images only (by County)
• 1754-1947 North Carolina, Duplin County, Miscellaneous Record, 1754-1947(*); at FamilySearch Catalog — images
• 1760-1800 North Carolina Will Abstracts 1760-1800 at Ancestry ($)
• 1760-1962 Wills, 1760-1962(*); County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions and Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1760-1962 Will Books A to 13 (1760-1962) at FamilySearch.org - How to Use this Collection; images only (by County)
• 1761-1804 Inventories, Divisions of Estates and Wills, 1761-1804(*); County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions at FamilySearch Catalog — images
• 1769-1800 Inventories and Accounts of Estates, 1769-1800(*); County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions at FamilySearch Catalog — images
• 1790 Pre-1790 Duplin County, North Carolina Genealogy Wills (North Carolina State Archives)
• 1800-1960 General Index and Record of Committees to Divide Real Estate, 1800-1960(*); County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions and Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1830-1849 Inventories and Accounts, 1830-1849(*); County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1846-1916 Guardian Bonds, 1846-1916(*); County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions and Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1846-1925 Administrators Bonds, 1846-1925(*); Superior Court and County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1851-1936 Inventories and Accounts, 1851-1936(*); County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1856-1882 Guardians Annual Settlements, 1856-1882(*); County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions and Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1869-1961 Record of Accounts, 1869-1961(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1869-1961 Record of Settlements, 1869-1961(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1872-1938 Orders and Decrees, 1872-1938(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1872-1962 Special Proceedings, 1872-1962(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1918-1962 Record of Administrators, 1918-1962(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1918-1962 Record of Guardians, 1918-1962(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• 1919-1961 Inheritance Tax Records, 1919-1961(*); Superior Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
• Images of Wills and Estates, Book A, 1760-1848 North Carolina Pioneers ($)
• North Carolina Probate Records tips.
• Wills & Estates from the NCGenWeb Archives
  

School Records

Yearbooks

• Duplin County students at North Carolina colleges. Yearbook Index. (NCGenWeb)

Social Security Records

• 1935-2014 United States Social Security Death Index at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index. Also at Ancestry, findmypast, Fold3, GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, and Steve Morse. Click here for more information.
• 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 at Ancestry ($) — index, click here for more information.
• 1936-2007 United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index

Tax Records

• 1783 Tax Lists, Duplin County, 1783 (index) in NC Taxpayers vol. 2 at Ancestry $
• 1783-1817 Tax Lists, 1783-1817 (images) at FamilySearch
• 1786-1838 (gaps) Tax Lists, 1786-1788, 1811-1813, 1816-1818, 1834, 1838 (images) at FamilySearch
• 1811-1817 Tax Lists, 1811-1817, Duplin County, North Carolina (images) at FamilySearch
• 1815 Tax Lists, Duplin County, 1815 (images) at North Carolina Digital Collections

Vital Records

• 1800-2000 North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Birth

• 1800-2000 North Carolina Birth Index 1800-2000 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
• 1866-1964 North Carolina Births and Christenings 1866-1964 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
• 1913-1922 North Carolina, Center for Health Statistics, Vital Records Unit, County Birth Records, 1913-1922 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1913-Present Duplin County Births, 1913-present. Search all birth records online; includes more than 2,000 delayed birth certificates.

Marriage

• 1741-2004 North Carolina, United States Marriages at Findmypast
• 1741-2004 North Carolina Marriage Index 1741-2004 at Ancestry $
• 1759-1979 North Carolina Marriages 1759-1979 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; Index
• 1762-1979 North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1763-1868 North Carolina, Civil Marriages, 1763-1868 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1867-1961 Duplin County Marriage Index 1867-1961 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch.
• 1867-Present Register of Deeds, Duplin County Marriages, 1867-present
• Duplin County Marriages (USGenWeb Archives)

Death

• 1898-1994 North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1906-1930 North Carolina Deaths 1906-1930 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection;index and images Also at: MyHeritage ($)
• 1908-2004 North Carolina Death Indexes 1908-2004 at Ancestry $
• 1909-1975 North Carolina Death Certificates 1909-1975 at Ancestry $
• 1913-Present Register of Deeds Duplin County Death Certificates, 1913-present
• 1931-1994 North Carolina Deaths 1931-1994 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Divorce

• 1926-1975 North Carolina, County Divorce Records, 1926-1975 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1958-2004 North Carolina Divorce Index 1958-2004 at Ancestry $

Research Facilities

Archives

Listed below are archives in Duplin County. For state-wide archival repositories, see North Carolina Archives and Libraries.

FamilySearch Centers

FamilySearch Center and Affiliate Library Locator map - search for local FamilySearch Centers or Affiliate Libraries

• FamilySearch Centers provide one-on-one assistance, free access to center-only databases, and to premium genealogical websites.
• FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries have access to most center-only databases, but may not always have full services normally provided by a FamilySearch center.
  

Local Centers and Affiliate Libraries

• Fayetteville North Carolina FamilySearch Center
• Jacksonville North Carolina FamilySearch Center
• Woodington North Carolina FamilySearch Center

Libraries

Listed below are libraries in Duplin County. For state-wide library facilities, see North Carolina Archives and Libraries.

Societies

Listed below are societies in Duplin County. For state-wide genealogical societies, see North Carolina Societies.

Duplin County Genealogy
Phone: 334-379-4532
Email: ncgeniehunter@yahoo.com
Website

Duplin County Historical Society
PO Box 775
Kenansville, NC 28349
Email: info@duplinhistory.org
Facebook
Website

Websites

• Duplin County, NCGenWeb genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project
• Duplin County, NCGenWeb Archives
• FamilySearch Catalog – The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records.

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