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I wasn't aware of other Melville families in Belfast at the time my gt grandfather moved there. Nor do I know the reason why he moved there. I think he was involved in the railways. I know he was from the Kirkcaldy / Fife area - which is where the Melville name is from. The name dates back to a Norman lord. Whether the family is related directly or adopted the Melville surname we'll probably never know.

His second wife Eleanor Rothwell was only 19 when William Beveridge Melville married her (he was 33) and he already had Bessie. They were married in Stockport near Manchester so it is possible he was working there - or he could have met her in Liverpool. It's entirely possible that he hired her to look after his daughter and then married her.

Maybe the descendants of one of my grandfather's siblings knows more.

Hi, my g-grandfather William Beveridge Melville moved to Belfast in the late 1800's. His first wife had died (probably in childbirth) and he had a daughter (I have the details but not with me at the moment). He married again (in Stockport, his 2nd wife born in Liverpool - my g-grandmother - again I do have some details).
My grandfather James Melville was born in 1902 in Belfast. I think he was the 2nd youngest but I don't recall. My grandfather came to England around 1930, where he met my grandmother in Blackburn. They were married in 1931 and settled in Heston, where they lived until she died in 1975. My grandfather moved to Derby to be near his son (my uncle) and died in 1996.