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58697
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1849 26 September
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Charged by Mary Corbett under the Masters & Servants act after his wife refused to pay passage money to Sydney after she dismissed Corbett


74001
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1842 2 February
Place: -
Source: CO
Details: Marriage of Robert Melville to Miss Agnes Blair, second daughter of William Blair late of Belfast Ireland on 24th January. Officiating minister Rev. James Fullerton


76816
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1850 7 September
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Requesting public meeting to consider the adjourned resolutions before the Legislative Council on the renewal of transportation


78205
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1850 14 September
Place: East Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Present at Anti transportation meeting held at the court house


80181
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1850 27 November
Place: Maitland and Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Obtained auctioneers licence


81759
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1851 5 February
Place: Maitland and Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Taking out auctioneers license for 1851


81886
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1851 12 February
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Attended public meeting at the Plough Inn on behalf of the Irish Exiles


81913
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1851 12 February
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Granted Spirit Merchants license


91301
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1852 17 July
Place: West Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Resumed business as Veterinary surgeon, auctioneer and commission agent


94320
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1852 8 September
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Witness in the case of Philip Magrane who was accused of fraudulent insolvency


96345
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1852 27 November
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Granted auctioneers license


97534
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1853 23 February
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Taking out auctioneers license for the year 1853


98453
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1853 12 March
Place: Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Witness at the trial of Philip Magrane


119871
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 1839 30 November
Place: Brisbane Water; bounded on the west by a line commencing at the SE corn of Joseph Spear's acres
Source: GG
Details: 50 acres promised by Gov. Darling 7 January 1830 and possession given 14 April 1830 as a small grant


174042
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: 29 May 1884
Place: -
Source: Evening News
Details: Article about James Mitchell who claimed to have been born in Edinburgh in 1784 and to have arrived on the Susan. The Susan arrived in 1834 and the James Mitchell who arrived on her was born in 1801. He was assigned to Robert Melville who was probably at Lake Macquarie in the 1830s. He recalled knowing people such as auld Peggy McGravie (Margaret McGreavy) and Captain Peg-leg Innes of Sydney as well as Long Reeve (Long Reed - James Reid), Major Bolton, James and Clarence Hannell etc. He had been employed bark stripping for the Cruise family on Mosquito Island and was carried on sheets of stringy bark to the lock up having received injuries to his back by the falling of a tree. He was to be taken to the Benevolent Asylum in Sydney


205605
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: -
Date: April 1849
Place: West Maitland
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Caroline Melville, age 25, house servant from Killmore, Co. Down, daughter of James and Jane, father living in Belfast. Assisted immigrant on the Midlothian. Note - a brother Robert Melville, auctioneer, resided at West Maitland


130679
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert
Ship: Glatton 1803
Date: 1826 6 December
Place: Broken Bay
Source: SG
Details: Absolute Pardon holder. Appointed Constable


151609
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert and Agnes
Ship: -
Date: 1855 16 December
Place: Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Birth of Samuel Joseph, son of Robert and Agnes Melville


151611
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert and Agnes
Ship: -
Date: 1853 28 May
Place: West Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Birth of Agnes Maria, daughter of Robert and Agnes Melville


151673
Surname: Melville
First Name: Robert and Agnes
Ship: -
Date: 1851 17 October
Place: Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Baptism of Andrew Henry, son of Robert and Agnes Melville