James Mellor

Brief Life History of James

When James Mellor was born on 20 March 1819, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Mellor, was 47 and his mother, Ann Dilke, was 40. He married Mary Ann Payne on 16 April 1838, in All Saints, Belgrave, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters. He immigrated to Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1856 and lived in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Springville, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 19 December 1903, in Fayette, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fayette Cemetery, Fayette, Sanpete, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Mellor
1819–1903
Mary Ann Payne
1817–1895
Marriage: 16 April 1838
Selina Ann Mellor
1838–1839
Louisa Mellor
1840–1915
Charlotte Elizabeth Mellor
1842–1886
Mary Ann Mellor
1843–1845
Mary Ann Mellor
1846–1892
James Mellor
1848–1932
William Charles Mellor
1851–1932
Emma Marintha Mellor
1853–1899
Clara Althera Mellor
1853–1921
Eliza Ann Mellor
1856–1856
Elizabeth Mellor
1856–1856
John Carlos Mellor
1860–1930

Sources (65)

  • James Mellor, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
  • Named in marriage entry for son Joseph Ervin Mellor and Mrs. Alice M Dalton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Death. 1867 Military Service, Veteran Burial, Utah Territorial Militia, James Mellor, "Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966"

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World Events (8)

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1821 · New Ouse Bridge Completed

The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire, West Yorkshire, and Derbyshire, earlier recorded as Melver, and named from ancient British words that are ancestors of Welsh moel ‘bare’ + bre ‘hill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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James Mellor Sr.

JAMES MELLOR SR. and MARY ANN PAYNE MELLOR James Mellor, Sr., youngest child of William Mellor and Ann Dilks, was born March 20, 1819 in the town of Leicester, Shire of Leicester, All Saints Pari …

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