[or-roots] MELVIN LINE and a Dow offer

[Leslie Chapman]

Eugene;

I just went poking around to further study whether we are linked,

http://www.petteefamily.org/allfam/b53.html#P2801

traces your line back to;

William Melville 306 died UNKNOWN.
Spouse: Florence. Children were: Robert Melville.

Interestingly enough I had thought we had a Robert Melville in our line, but
I don't have him. One of the theories is that my Melvin line is actually
Melville, from house of Melville in Scotland, and one of the ancestors did
supposedly changed his name to Melville in the 18th century.

Actually, I just checked and his name change was imposed;

Melvin 244090a	JOSIAH JR. MELVILLE:   BIRTH: Groups of Palmer Families
(Melvin Line), by Emily Wilder Leavitt, also in Vital Records of Concord
Massachusetts. According to this book his name was changed by the NH
Legislature to Melville, the original form of the present Melvin.
PARENTS: PALMER GROUPS by Leavitt

This name change also applied to children.

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you might want to check out;
http://www.espl.org/mearscol/pagendxs/simpson/fowndx.htm#Melvin

and

http://www.espl.org/mearscol/pagendxs/simpson/d40972.htm

there is some info on Avra and his wife's family there, though it is a
little suspect since the same family group is listed as being 5th through
eigth generation??

I was looking for William in my family tree and the first one we have is
born in Nova Scotia about 1798.

I searched HQ books for more info on your folks and got sidetracked by
chasing one of MY Samuel Melvins, which led me to spend half an hour
downloading pages from a book only to discover I had downloaded almost the
whole book last year sometime, then I wandered off on my French line because
I ran across another of my Samuels in "the book of Dow" which if anyone out
there has Dows I am willing to ATTEMPT to locate them in the book;

Dow, Robert Piercy,
The book of Dow : genealogical memoirs of the descendants of Henry Dow 1637,
Thomas Dow 1639 and others of the name, immigrants to America during
Colonial times, also the allied family of Nudd
Claremont, N.H.: R.P. Dow, 1929, 1012 pgs.

Robert breaks his arm patting himself on the back for his wonderful
organizationa improvisation where Samuel's wife is listed as adgxfafa which
make her 1st b. of fifth b. of first b. of fifth b. of ? b. of 7th b. of
fourth b. of progenitor Henry. Or at least I think that is what he means, he
calls it by generation where I have put born, and I still haven't figured
out how you are supposed to find any of these people in the book since they
are only indexed that way, no page references and the blankety blank thing
is NOT organized by generation but apparently starts with a goes to aa then
aaa and so on, except not quite???

Les C



-----Original Message-----
From: EugeneMelvin.roots at comcast.net
Subject: [or-roots] MELVIN LINE

Glen,

I believe we come from different lines of MELVIN.

My line goes back to WILLIAM MELVIN and MARY BENSTON of Maryland about 1650.