Abraham Meljado was a son of Juda Haim Meljado and Engeltje Brandon. He married Rosine Stodel in Amsterdam on 30 May 1907, a daughter of Mozes Stodel and Wilhelmina Kann. Rosine however has passed away in 1935 and Abraham Meljado remarried on 23 February 1938 the Polish widow of Bernard Bornstein, Ernestyne Feiwel, a daughter of Leib Feiwel and Paja Kleinmann.

Abraham and Rosine had two children: Engeltje and Wilhelmina. Both have been killed during the Holocaust.

Abraham self was born in a family with at least 13 children. Many of his siblings have died at young age and/or already before the war. One brother has survived the Holocaust but his brother Aron was killed in the Shoah too.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Abraham Meljado, Aron Meljado, the website www.wiewaswie.nl and the burial card of Juda Haim Meljado of the Portuguese Jewish Cemetery Beth Haim at Ouderkerk a.d. Amstel.