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Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  2. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP VI p[0-9]*].
  3. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP VIII p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
first son [Ref: SP VI p86],
parents:
[Ref: SP VI p86]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: SP VI p88]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret WEMYSS
date:
abt Jul 1503 [Ref: SP VI p89]
before 1503 [Ref: SP VIII p486],
names:
Sir John MELVILLE & dau Sir John WEMYSS of that Ilk [Ref: SP VI p89]
Sources with Information about marriage to Helen NAPIER
date:
abt 1525 [Ref: SP VI p89],
names:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1463, SP VI p412]
Research Notes:



Pedigree of Sir John MELVILLE
                                                                /-----Stephen MELVILLE
                                                       /-----Walter MELVILLE
                                              /-----John MELVILLE
                                     /-----Walter MELVILLE
                            /-----John MELVILLE
                           |        |         /-----John AYR
                           |         \-----Margaret AYR
                   /-----Sir John MELVILLE
          /-----William MELVILLE
         |        |         /-----William SCOTT
         |         \-----Marjory SCOTT
 /-----John MELVILLE
|        |         /-----Sir Robert LUNDIE
|         \-----Euphemia LUNDIE
Sir John MELVILLE
|         /-----William BONAR
 \-----Janet BONAR



Descendants of Sir John MELVILLE
1. Sir John MELVILLE m1. Margaret WEMYSS m2. Helen NAPIER
m. Margaret WEMYSS father: Sir John WEMYSS mother: Christian ABERNETHY
m. Helen NAPIER father: Sir Alexander NAPIER mother: Janet CHISHOLM