Melvill Surname Ancestry ResultsOur indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'melvill'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 130 records (displaying 51 to 60): Single Surname Subscription | | | Buying all 130 results of this search individually would cost £654.00. But you can have free access to all 130 records for a year, to view, to save and print, for £100. Save £554.00. More... |
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This directory of the residents of Cape Town was compiled by A. Richert senior, superintendent of the Printing Office, for the African Court Calendar published under the sanction of the government of the Cape of Good Hope.
MELVILL. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Mathematics students at Cambridge University
(1828)
Tripos lists or examination results for the year, arranged by class (Wranglers, Senior Optimes and Junior Optimes), and within each class in order of score in the examination (the names of candidates with equal scores are bracketed together, with the word 'AEq.'). Each student's surname and college is given: this list was printed in 1890, and was annotated with asterisks to show which students had subsequently become fellows of the university; and with footnotes showing those who became headmasters, &c., elsewhere. Winners of Dr Smith's Mathematical Prizes are marked (1) senior, (2) for junior. The Greek letter alpha is affixed to the names of those students who had gained first class results in the Classical Tripos; beta to those entered in the second class; and gamma to those entered in the third class. These lists are particularly useful in identifying for an individual the fellow-students who will have attended lectures with him; and, where from the college, are likely to have been even more closely associated by having been under the same supervisor. (The sample scan is from the start of the Mathematics Tripos list for 1770)MELVILL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1830)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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| Merchants, Bankers, Shipowners and Traders of London
(1834)
The public prints of December 1834 carried this loyal address to king William IV of merchants, bankers, shipowners, traders and others connected with the city of London, requesting 'permission at the present juncture to address your Majesty for the purpose of renewing the expression of our dutiful and loyal attachment to your Majesty’s person and crown. Deeply sensible of the practical blessings we have hitherto enjoyed under our wisely mixed constitution of King, Lords, and Commons, and feeling that the free and legitimate exercise of the Royal prerogative forms an integral part of that constitution (as essential to the maintenance of our own liberties as to the power and dignity of the Throne), we beg humbly to assure your Majesty of our determination steadfastly to uphold the same by every means in our power.
'Feeling, in common with all classes of your Majesty’s subjects, the deep importance of applying to all real abuses, wherever they may be found, a wholesome and timely correction, and of effecting in our excellent institutions every improvement of which careful examination and experience may prove them to be susceptible, we desire further dutifully to express our entire confidence that these useful purposes will ever occupy your Majesty’s paternal care. Nor can we permit ourselves to believe that the importance of these objects will be less apparent to those to whom the powers of government have been recently intrusted.'
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|  British merchant seamen
(1835-1836)
At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act this large register of British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. Each seaman was assigned a number, and the names were arranged in the register by first two letters of the surname (our sample scan shows one of the pages for 'Sm'); in addition, an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. But no effective method was devised to prevent the same man being registered twice as he appeared in a second crew list; moreover, the original crew lists were clearly difficult for the registry clerks to copy, and some of the surname spellings appear to be corrupted. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and this register was abandoned after less than two years: but it is an apparently comprehensive source for British merchant seamen in 1835 to 1836. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (master, captain, mate, 2nd mate, mariner, seaman, fisherman, cook, carpenter, boy &c.); and the name and home port of his ship, with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men recorded were born in the British Isles, but not all (for instance, Charleston and Stockholm appear in the sample scan). The final column 'How disposed of' is rarely used, and indicates those instances where a man died, was discharged, or deserted his ship during the voyage.MELVILL. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| British in India and Ceylon, China and Australasia
(1837)
Births, marriages and deaths, civil, ecclesiastical and military promotions, furloughs, reports of shipping to and from England and the East, with passenger lists, and news items published in the Asiatic Journal
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| Boys entering Rugby School
(1841)
This edition of Rugby School Register was published in 1933: the volume covering 1675 to 1857 contains 6480 entries, based on the original school admission registers, but elaborated with general biographical information wherever the editor was able to do so. The entries for the 17th and early 18th centuries are much less detailed than those for later years. The arrangement of the fullest entries was to give the boy's full name (surname first, in bold); whether eldest, second, &c., son; father's name and address as of when the boy entered school; the boy's age at entry and birthday; name of the house (in the school) to which he belonged; then a brief general biography; and date and place of death. MELVILL. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Officials of the East India Company, in England and in India
(1841)
The Royal Kalendar lists the directors and officials of the East India Company, together with the India Establishments, the coucils and staff in Madras and Bombay, officers of the East India College at Hertford, and the company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe.MELVILL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Schoolmasters, governors and patrons of schools and children's charities
(1841)
Officials, masters and assistants of Winchester College, Eton College, Manchester School, St Paul's School, Mercers Grammar School, Christ's Hospital, Merchant Taylors School, Etwall and Repton Incorporated Hospital and School, St Saviour's Grammar School (Southwark), Harrow School, Westminster College, Rugby School, Shrewsbury School, St Olave's Grammar School, Saint Margaret's Hospital (Westminster), Charter House, Camberwell Free Grammar School, Dulwich College, Beccles School, Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School and Library, Blue Coat School (Westminster), Grey Coat Hospital School (Westminster), St David's College (Lampeter), Raine's Charities, the Orphan Working School, Welsh Charity School, Asylum for the Support and Education of the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor; Philological School; School for Indigent Blind; Philanthropic Society; St Ann's Society Schools; London Hibernian Society for Establishing Schools and Circulating the Holy Scriptures in Ireland; City of London School of Instruction and Industry; British and Foreign School Society; the Corporation of the Caledonian Asylum for Supporting and Educating the Children of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, Natives of Scotland, and of Indigent Scotch Parents, Resident in London, not Entitled to Parochial Relief; London Orphan Asylum; the Adult Orphan Institution for the Relief and Education of the Friendless and Unprotected Daughters of Clergymen of the Established Church &c.; the Irish Society of London for Promoting the Education of the Native Irish through the Medium of their own Language; the Benevolent Society of St Patrick; the British Orphan Asylum; and the Infant Orphan Asylum, are listed in the Royal Kalendar.MELVILL. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
| Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1842)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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