The internet has played a key role in our family history search.
From the huge files we gathered and stored we began to lose space to store them all, papers, birth and death certificates, what do we do with them all and how can we display them to our family and to future generations? It was decided to create a book, a book that we could show our research and what we had discovered, but as our research is an on going project and is continuing all the time with new facts and family lines added almost monthly the book would never be totally finished, No, we needed a way of showing what we had researched so far but also a way we could change and update that information regularly.
The Melton Family Web Pages were born.

Features

Genealogy Statistics updated again on  19th November 2008

This site is continually updated with new photographs, with new pages and with new information.

Our genealogy pages currently contain the family history information of 1695 individuals. 443 recorded marriages. 304 surnames associated with the Melton Family, over 14 generations and a total of 18158 text records.

The history pages start with a Father to Father line that continues up to the present day and includes the new generation of the family.

Details of our family's association with the City of Norwich and also a look back in time at how Norwich used to look with archive photographs.

Here you will find details about the history behind our surname and its meaning and also the different place names that contain our surname.

A look back at the small village of Topcroft in Norfolk and the many generations of our family that lived and worked in this quiet country village.

Take a look at how and why the census reports came about and how our family feature in the reports and information on our family tree.

Meet the family in our Message Board forums

Come and have a chat with us, register just once and gain access to all the forums, join in and post topics on anything you wish.

Everybody is welcome to join us on the chat and message board.

Family Research

We have been researching the Melton Family Tree now for over 16 years and it is an ongoing project.
Our project now includes the search for information on the following surnames:

Melton Wilkin Spauls Huggins Kemp Warman Barrett Plumpton and Baker

As you will see from this list, the research is a very time consuming project but as new information is obtained we will update this website and the Family History Pages accordingly.
This website owes our huge thanks to our resident genealogist Shelle Melton for her contributions and her time and effort in researching our family history and without who this website would not be possible..

Should you have any information regarding the above surnames and you may be able to help with our research please contact us.
If you think we could possibly help with any research you may be undertaking then please feel free to contact us. We answer all e-mail aimed at this website.

INFORMATION UPDATES

The Genealogy page was last updated to include new information
on the 19th October 2008

Spauls and Wilkin update.

In our continued family research, shelle has been busy looking into the Spauls and Wilkin families.
To keep you informed of our progress we are now at the stage of taking the tree back to 1788 on the Spauls side to the Great Great paternal Grandparents of May Wilkin.
We are also as far back as 1807 on May's maternal (Mothers Side) Great Great Grandparents.
This information is now available on the Family History Page and the research into this side of the family is continuing.