Malott family history
Nearly every Malott, Mellott, Marlatt and Marlett family tree in America leads back to one man: Gedeon (Gideon) La Plante Merlet, a Huguenot carpenter from Roucy, in Champagne, France. Driven out by religious persecution, he lived in Holland and Germany, then sailed with his wife and four sons to New Amsterdam, arriving in February 1663. His grandsons spread across New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and their descendants carried the name, in a dozen spellings, west to Ohio, Illinois and beyond.
Fourteen generations of the Malott name, from Roucy, France, around 1600, to the present.
What’s new
- 29 September 2026: Bud Malott’s Buckeye Log Cabin, his line back to Dory Malott, and Simon Girty, husband of Catherine Malott.
- 29 September 2026: the 1850, 1870 and 1910 censuses; Delos Malott’s marriage and draft records; five more children of Theodore “Dory” Malott and his Revolutionary War service.
- 28 September 2026: a map of family cemeteries, Places Named for the Family, and a 1907 map that locates Gideon’s farm on Staten Island.
Where they lived
People with a birth, marriage, or death recorded in each place.