Mellor Family Mysteries

Location: Derbyshire, England
Surnames/tags: Mellor Staveley Needham

So we have tentative makes as follows from around 1500 back in time

Thomas Mellor 1509-1560 (a name popular to the present day) Robert Mellor 1460/1485-1548

We seem to have 20 year generations

John Mellor 1451-1491

Robert Mellor 1426-1474

Robert Radclyffe? Mellor 1396-1445

William Mellor 1368-1420

Robert III de Staveley/Mellor 1335-1409

Robert II de Staveley/Mellor 1297-1410 (a date has to be an error)

Richard de Staveley de Mellor 1250-1318

Robert de Staveley de Mellor 1230.1274

Symon de Staveley 1216-1272 (very recently acquired dates)

and so on further is relattively easy, but plagues and monastery dissolutions and the like, and invasions make finding records "interesting". Also is the risk of thinking someone else has found evidence when in fact they have copied me. I visited Ideridgehey recently and while most of the roads are as wide only as a horse and cart and the church is very new (1800s), there isn't much obvious to see on a first visit. We (Mellors) lived at (now) Idridgehay for around 800 years, after the move (fall from!) Mellor Hall a mile or two down the road in the village of Mellor from where I reckon we took our name being at that time "of Mellor". In all this my approach is to identify lines and thenset about seeking out evidence to confirm or deny or alter the trees, of which there may be several. For example at one point we are three females and all marry, so we become (amongst others) Needhams. Interestingly I have a friend called Needham who lives not a stone's throw from Mellor and he says his sister traced them back to the nearby village of Needham.. maybe we are related from many hundreds of years ago. Whether we will ever prove it remains to be seen. I have wondered if DNA might show this.

Of all this the link I most seek, that search being now several years in progress is the Staveley to Mellor switch. I THINK Simon (Symon) or his son moved to Mellor and thence to Ideridgehey/Idridgehay, where as I say we lived for 800 years.

I could do with a "tenuous tree" drafting feature, but not found such a thing yet - all this is documented on myheritage.com and others for now.