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My greatgrandfather was Alexander Melville. He was the illegitimate son of Mary Melville and was born in the year 1881 in Fife. He ran a successful Haulage company and also owned Pluckerstone Farm by Kirriemuir. He died 2nd February 1953 when I was just seven years old. My grandmother Jessie-Ann then ran the business along with my father and two other sons very successfully. She died about 1972.

My grandfather (George Melville) was born in 1899 in Glasgow and came to Canada in about 1925.

My g grandfather was in the 1871 census when he and his mother was with her father (William Nicoll - farmer) in Tayock. His name was William Nicoll Melville and was born in Tayock, Angus in 1864. His mother was Mary (Nicoll) and father was James Melville (Master Mariner in the Merchant Marines).

He married my g grandmother in Glasgow and her name was Jessie (Murray).

There is more information that I know and it's too much to put in here, but is there any connection here?

I was born in 1963 and my branch of the Melville family came from Tayside. My Great Grandfather was Christopher Melville who owned a Lemonade Factory there. He had 5 children, of which one was my grandfather was James (Jim) Melville and he has one surviving sister - Isobel - who still lives in the family home in Tayport. My father (James Forbes Haining Melville - known as Forbes) lives in Dorset with my mother (Melody or Win). His brother, Graham Christopher, sadly died a few years ago - mercifully quickly for him and quite unexpected to those he left behind. My father (Forbes) knows all the history of his family and I would be more than happy to get in contact with any Melvilles who are interested in us. I have a very large family tree (currently residing in the attic) but given the right incentive would be happy to unearth it. Catherine Joy Cleavin (nee Melville) - known as Cathy! I live in Southampton with my family