Melling

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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.

Contents 1 Places 2 Things 3 People 4 Fictional people 5 See also

[edit] Places

• Melling is an area of 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.

[edit] Things

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

[edit] People

• Al Melling, of Melling Consultancy Design, (MCD), is a prolific car engine designer.
• Harry Melling of Melling Engine Parts sponsored NASCAR Racing.
• Actor Harry Melling [1] was Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
• Philip H. Melling, (Ph.D. Manchester), is the founding head of the American Studies Faculty, University of Wales, Swansea, [2](Literature, contemporary ethnic writing).
• O.R. Melling is the pen-name of G.V. Whelan.
• Antoine Ignace Melling (1763-1831) was Court Architect and Engraver to Ottoman Sultan Selim III, and Landscape Painter to the Empress Josephine of France.

[edit] Fictional people

• Actor Sir Michael Caine played Victor Melling in the film Miss Congeniality
• 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.

[edit] See also

• List of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) surnames