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Galfridus de Melville, Sheriff of Edinburgh in 1162

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  • Galfridus de Melville, Sheriff of Edinburgh (c.1110 - c.1180)
    “Melville family“ Wikipedia Galfridus de Melville , a Norman knight who settled in Scotland in the twelfth century. The surname is said to derive from Malleville, a manor in the Pays de Caux, Normandy....

Cleaning and documenting the Geni tree around Galfridus de Melville, Sheriff of Edinburgh in 1162. The first record of the name in Scotland is of Galfrid, sheriff of Edinburgh Castle, who appears in a charter of Malcolm IV in 1162.