| ![Show Contents]() Melian Surname History
The Melian surname most likely evolved from several place names, including one near Lancaster and another near Liverpool. Early Origins of the Melian familyThe surname Melian was first found in Lancashire at Melling-with-Wrayton, a civil parish in the City of Lancaster or at Melling, a village a village nearby. "In the Conqueror's survey, Mellinge, Hornebi, and Wennigetun, are placed in Yorkshire, as constituting one manor, in which Vlf, whose name is perpetuated in that of Wolfa Crag, had nine and a half carucates of land. The earliest record in which the parish is subsequently mentioned, is the charter of Roger de Poictou, who gave the church of Melling to his newly-founded priory of Lancaster." 1 Early History of the Melian familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Melian research. Another 85 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1120, 1260, 1447, 1465, 1469, 1470, 1474 and 1492 are included under the topic Early Melian History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Melian Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Mellin, Melling and others. Early Notables of the Melian familyNotables of the family at this time include Thomas Millyng (d. 1492), Bishop of Hereford, became about 1447, when quite a youth, a monk at Westminster, and thence proceeded to the Benedictine College, Gloucester Hall (now Worcester College), Oxford, where he remained till he graduated D.D. He then returned to Westminster, and in 1465 succeeded the chronicler John Flete as prior. The abbot George Norwych had wasted the revenues and incurred large debts, and he was now forced to retire to another Benedictine house, with an annual pension of a hundred marks. Although he retained the nominal title of abbot, Millyng...
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 Melian migration to the United States | + |
Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Melian Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Angel Melian, aged 46, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1857 2
- Cecilia Melian, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1857 2
- Francisco Melian, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1857 2
- Gervasio Melian, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1857 2
- Saturnina Melian, who landed in Puerto Rico in 1857 2
| Contemporary Notables of the name Melian (post 1700) | + |
- Manuel Amor Melián (b. 1867), Spanish poet, journalist and editor
- Mrs. Melian Barbara Mansfield M.B.E. (b. 1942), British recipient of Member of the Order of the British Empire on 8th June 2018, for services to Young People, Play and Education 3
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- "Birthday and New Year Honours Lists (1940 to 2019)." Issue 62310, 4 July 2019 | London Gazette, The Gazette, June 2018, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/62310/supplement/B1
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