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
- 1 October 2026: the Cousin Connector: see how any two people on the site are related.
- 30 September 2026: Dory Malott’s Revolutionary War pension file, in his own words; the Marlatts of Manhattan, Kansas, including entomologist Charles Lester Marlatt, now linked to the tree; the Photo and Image Gallery; and Young Brides and Young Mothers.
- 29 September 2026: Bud Malott’s Buckeye Log Cabin, his line back to Dory Malott, and Simon Girty, husband of Catherine Malott.
Where they lived
People with a birth, marriage, or death recorded in each place.