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Etymology of Mealing

What does the name Mealing mean?

The Mealing surname most likely evolved from several place names, including one near Lancaster and another near Liverpool.

Early Origins of the Mealing family

The surname Mealing 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 Mealing family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Mealing 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 Mealing History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Mealing Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Mellin, Melling and others.

Early Notables of the Mealing family

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, aided by two senior monks, one of whom...
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Mealing migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Mealing Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century
  • Miss Elizabeth Mealing, (b. 1839), aged 16, British servant travelling from London aboard the ship "Grasmere" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 4th May 1855 2
  • Priscilla Mealing, who arrived in Nelson, New Zealand aboard the ship "Cresswell" in 1856
  • Mr. Joseph Mealing, (b. 1844), aged 30, British settler travelling from London aboard the ship "Peter Denny" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 26th July 1874 3

Contemporary Notables of the name Mealing (post 1700) +

  • Angelette Mealing, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 2008 4
  1. Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
  2. New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 17th October 2018). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
  3. New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 26th March 2019). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
  4. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 4) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html

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