Researching John Mellor
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 10549 people with the Mellor surname? In that year Mellor was ranked number 389 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Mellor on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Mellor and the Mellor Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Mellor Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Mellor family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 10939 people with the Mellor surname in the UK? Mellor is now ranked number 531 for popularity in the UK. |
Mellor Family Tree Databases
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Mellor Forums
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Some Famous People called John Mellor
John William Mellor
John William Mellor PC DL QC (26 July 1835 – 13 October 1911) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician.
Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons of Rt Hon. Sir John Mellor, of Otterhead, Devonshire, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Mellor was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
In 1860 he married Caroline Paget, daughter of Charles Paget, MP. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1860, a Queen's Counsel in 1875 and a Bencher in 1877. He was Recorder of Grantham from 1871 to 1874 and Judge Advocate General from February to August 1886. In 1878 Mellor was involved in the Whistler v Ruskin libel trial.
He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1880 to 1886 and for Sowerby, Yorkshire from 1892 until 1904, when he retired from Parliament. In Parliament, he was Chairman of Ways and Means & Deputy Speaker to Arthur Wellesley Peel from 1893 to 1895, and was a member of the Royal Commissions on Tweed and Solway Fisheries in 1896, on the Water Supply to London in 1897, and of the Committees of Royal Commission Patriotic Fund in 1898.
He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1886.
Source: John William Mellor, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Mellor
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