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mellor Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places in Lancashire, West Yorkshire, and Derbyshire, earlier recorded as Melver, and named from ancient British words that are ancestors of Welsh moel ‘bare’ + bre ‘hill’.

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mellor Family Facts

Distribution of mellor Families in the US in 1920
Number of mellor families
 53-103
 18-52
 1-17
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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