Descendants of James and Mary Melville - 1838 - 2008

Descendants of James and Mary Melville. 1838 - 2008.

203 pages, approximately 2,000 individuals.

This is the story of the Melville clan, written by the members of the family using material gathered from the widely-spread descendants of James and Mary Melville.

The first chapter is devoted to the lives of the founders of the family in Australia. For each of their surviving 10 children, there is a chapter which includes data on the family tree of that line and a brief history of the 1st and 2nd generations.

James and Mary (nee Gavin) Melville arrived in Sydney in October 1838, on the " Mandarin", from Ireland.
James and Mary married in Belfast on 5th June, 1838.

Children:
1. Robert married Kerzia Elizabeth Worboys - 7 children.
2. James married Anne Maria Holland - 9 children
3. Eliza married a) Frederick Charles Turner - 6 children b) William Allen
4. Mary married George Charles Johnson - 6 children
5. Jane married Samuel Davidson - 7 children
6. Margaret Spiers married Benjamin Wilberforce West - 11 children
7. John married Susan Hodges - 4 children
8. William married Jane Elliott - 8 children
9. Samuel. Died in infancy 1856
10. Janet married William Charles Gambrill - 6 children
11. Mary Anne married Benjamin Ezzy Sullivan - 4 children