Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Melhuish in Devon, so called from Old English mǣl(e) ‘brightly colored’, ‘flowery’ + hīwisc ‘hide’ (a measurement of land).
- Scottish : variant of Mellis 2.
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