Notes on de Vesselitsky

Vesselitsky or de Wesselitsky in the German form, continued in use as a surname until 1931, with the surname being changed to Merriman, a translation of de Vesselitsky to accommodate  the education of Gabriel and Michael at Dover college as the school was getting objections from other parents to their sons being educated alongside boys of Russian name or extract, so Gabriel and Michael were taken to London to have their surname name changed by deed pole to Merriman, with the advice that de Vesselitsky could still be used as a middle name.





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