Melling Family History
- Melling Name Meaning
- English (Lancashire): habitational name from places near Lancaster and near Liverpool. Both are probably so called from the Old English tribal name Me(a)llingas ‘people of Mealla’. English: variant of Melville. German: habitational name from a place called Mellingen (see Mellinger).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 168,496 Historical Documents with Melling on Ancestry
- 88,030 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 26,703 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,003 Military Records
- 3,581 Immigration Records
- 47,179 Member Trees
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Number of Melling families
 863 - 1,724  288 - 862 |
 1 - 287  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Melling families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Melling census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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