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WELCOME! My name is Diane Siniard and I am the county coordinator for Craven County's NCGenWeb page. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or suggestions. There is a search engine available for this site. It is located in 2 places on the home page for your convenience!

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I would like to get transcriptions of cemeteries, birth, marriage, and death certificates, photos and anything else you feel may benefit other researchers.
Please help me to make this the best source of information for Craven County on the internet!

If you find an email address or link on this site that is no longer valid PLEASE let me know so I can find a new one or remove it! Thanks!

Craven was first created as Archdale Precinct of Bath County in 1705. The name was changed about 1712. It was named in honor of William Lord Craven, one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina. It is in the eastern section of the State and is bounded by Carteret, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt, Beaufort and Pamlico counties. The present land area is 695.41 square miles and the population in 1990 was 81,613. The county seat was first called Chattawka, or Chattoocka, and later. in 1723, Newbern. New Bern - the law fixed the spelling in 1897 - is the county seat.

The following history comes from Gail Swain: At one time New Bern was a fenced in town, then it was deserted. I think that is when William Hancock and another gentleman were appointed to sell lots in the town of New Bern. There is a deed book with the wills in it, every deed starts off with his telling about being appointed commissioner to sell lots in the town of New Bern, appointed in Edenton. At that time Edenton might have still been called Queen Anne's town before it was named after Gov. Eden. It was our colonial capital. And where many courts were held before Craven's Pleas & Quarter Sessions.

 

 

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We could really use your help with one of these projects, or some of the others that we have going. Won't you volunteer today?

Craven County Project Volunteers:
Coordinator and webmaster: Diane Siniard
Cemetery Transcription Project: Diane Siniard, Bernd Doss & Jim Dugan
Cemetery Photos Project: Diane Siniard, Bernd Doss & Jim Dugan
Cemetery Location Project: Hank Bland
Census Transcription Project: Won't you volunteer?
Deed Transcription Project: Rachael Beale
Obituary Transcription Project: Bill Bland & Jeanette Corcoran
Transcribers for Various Projects: Won't you volunteer?

I am looking for transcriptionists for various records that I have that need transcribing. If you are interested in helping out please contact Diane Siniard directly.

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    Craven County Site last updated--Monday, 8-February-2010 15:57 EST

    Links last updated-- Friday, 4-September-2009 22:55 EST

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