Mellow is a name whose history is connected to the ancient
Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Mellow family once lived in the settlement of Millichope in the county of
Shropshire. The surname Mellow belongs to the large category of
Anglo-Saxon habitation names, which are derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.
Early Origins of the Mellow family
The surname Mellow was first found in
Shropshire where the surname is associated with the village of Millichope. The village of Millichope, a Norman spelling of the
Anglo-Saxon Melicope, was held in 1086 by Helgot from Earl Roger, a companion of King William.
Early History of the Mellow family
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Mellow Spelling Variations
Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore,
spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Mellow family name include Millichamp, Millichap, Millenchop, Millcamp, Mellcamp, Mellencamp, Millcomp, Milcamp, Milcomp, Millicamp, Millicomp, Millichope and many more.
Early Notables of the Mellow family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Mellow family to Ireland
Some of the Mellow family moved to
Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Mellow family to the New World and Oceana
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for
Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Mellow surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Mellow Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
- David Henry Mellow, who landed in New York in 1761 [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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)