MELLING

'Melling' , is the name of several places in England and one in New Zealand. The name was once used on a locomotive. Melling originates from the Anglo-saxon roots for "The homestead of Maella", (or Malla), first settled in Lancashire, England by Maella's family in the 6th century CE. As a surname it derives from the places in England, and is also found in fiction as character names and place names.

Melling is a village in Sefton, Merseyside, England

Melling Mount is a hamlet in Sefton, Merseyside, England

Melling is a village in Carnforth, Lancashire, England

Melling is a suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

★ 'Melling' was the name of a GWR Hawthorn Class 2-4-0 locomotive.

Harry Melling of Melling Engine Parts [1] sponsored NASCAR Racing, and was inducted into the Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.[2]

Actor Harry Melling [3] was Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films. He is grandson of actor Patrick Troughton [4]the second actor to portray The Doctor on the long running British Science Fiction television series ''Doctor Who''

★ Philip H. 'Melling', (Ph.D. Manchester), is the founding head of the American Studies Faculty, University of Wales, Swansea, [5](Literature, contemporary ethnic writing).

O.R. Melling is the pen-name of G.V. Whelan [6]

★ Actor Sir Michael Caine played Victor 'Melling' in the film Miss Congeniality [7]

Margaret Biggs is the author of the 'Melling' School series of books for girls in the 1950s, 1960s and reprinted in the 2000s.

Robin Kleinis the author of All in the Blue Unclouded Weather. This is a collection of interlinked nostalgic stories set in a late 1940s Australian country town, which focus on the four young 'Melling' sisters: Vivienne, Cathy, Heather, and Grace.

Antoine Ignace Melling (1763-1831) was Court Architect and Engraver to Ottoman Sultan Selim III, and Landscape Painter to the Empress Josephine of France.

Al Melling, of Melling Consultancy Design, (MCD), is a prolific car engine designer.

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List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames

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