On this page we take a look at how popular the name Melton is.
Be it a surname or a place name, when researching the Family History we discovered that the name is very popular all over the world

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The sign for Melton Constable in Norfolk.
The sign depicts a once thriving village that was the railway link to the midlands for goods and passengers.
Sadly British Rail withdrew its services in the 60s and the village suffered greatly.
 

One of the Many places around the UK that have us so interested in our family heritage.
Were our ancestors once great landowners? or is it just that we got our name from these places where they once lived?
This extract comes from a brief history of the town Melton Mowbray.

The effects of the Norman invasion are recorded in the 1086 Domesday Survey. This document indicates that settlements at Long Clawson and Bottesford were of noteworthy size;
and that Melton Mowbray (Medeltone - meaning 'Middletown surrounded by small hamlets') was a thriving market town of some 200 inhabitants, with weekly markets, two water mills and two priests".

This is the official Crest or coat of arms for Melton Mobray

The white lion is from the arms of the Mowbray family, Lords of Melton for over 300 years, whose arms a white lion rampant on a red field is the Mobray family Crest.

The towers on red allude to the district's borough status and the ancient castles of Belvoir, Melton Mowbray and Thorpe Arnold. The wheat sheaves on green refer to

 agriculture.

 

Just outside of the Village of Melton Constable
is Melton Park. A large expanse of land once associated with
and farmed by the owners of Melton Hall.

Melton Grange just outside of Woodbridge In suffolk.
Once a very fine looking country house, it was later tranformed into what must have been a very grand hotel.
Unfortunately now closed.
 

We found this old gem of a photo quite by accident.
It is of Melton United Football Team, taken approximately 1931.
 

Now for the International feel
take a look at this one. Kindly sent to us by Dr Mark Melton of Henderson Nevada USA.
The photograph is that of Melton Street in Mark's home town.

Thanks again mark.

This picture was found on a web site containing the name Melton
It is for the Melton Trucking Company in Australia.
Found while doing a search  by just typing in the word Melton.
 

Both of these logos here belong to a web site for
the shire of Melton near to Melbourne Australia.
Research into this area has found that  Melton was named after the fashionable Melton Mowbray hunting grounds in England and is a reminder that fox hunting was popular in the district.
By clicking on the Melton Online Logo above will take you to that web site.

 

Melton Mowbray Hotel, Tasmania, Australia, in the time of Samuel Blackwell.

Samuel Blackwell was born in Melton Mowbray, England, around 1814.
He died in the town of Melton Mowbray, Tasmania, Australia on 12 July 1885.
The story of Samuel Blackwell is also the story of Melton Mowbray in Tasmania.
Samuel Blackwell went to Australia in 1840, and in 1858 built the hotel that he named after his birthplace. Melton Mowbray remains as a small town, not far from the city of Hobart in Australia.

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