Researching William 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 William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Mellor on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Genealogy Databases
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Mellor Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Mellor surname in the USA? Mellor is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Search the Ellis Island Database for information on William Mellor. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called William Mellor
William Mellor (journalist)
William Mellor (1888–1942) was a left-wing British journalist.
Mellor was born in Crewe, where his father was a Unitarian clergyman. He attended Willaston School, an establishment set up to provide education for the sons of impoverished Unitarian ministers. He then went on to Exeter College, Oxford.
A Guild Socialist during the 1910s, Mellor worked closely with G. D. H. Cole, founding the National Guilds League with him in 1915. He joined the Daily Herald in 1913 as a journalist, and was imprisoned during the First World War as a conscientious objector, returning to the Herald on his release.
He was a founder-member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920, but resigned in 1924. He became editor of the Herald in 1926, succeeding George Lansbury when the Trades Union Congress took over the paper, and was fired in 1930 soon after Odhams Press took half-ownership with the TUC. He was the first editor of Tribune 1937–38, but was sacked after falling out with Stafford Cripps over the latter's proposal for a Popular Front of socialist and non-socialist parties against fascism. For the last ten years of his life, though married with a family, he conducted an affair with the young Barbara Castle.
Source: William Mellor (journalist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Mellor
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