Your Melville family name is unfamiliar to me, but I can trace my Lyte folks back to late 1700s with Martin Lyte>Louis Clarkson Lyte (1814-)>Elphalet Oram Lyte((1842-)>Louis McJunkin Lyte (1886-)>Louis Oram Lyte (my father b. 1913-). I have this group placed in PA, USA...but suspect earlier group in Virginia....perhaps coming up from Barbados.
Early Lyte line comes from England...Lytes Cary...and before then was French Le Lyt in 1200s. I'm just missing the link between this extensive OLD group and the folks I listed above.
Appreciate any clues available. Thank you.