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
- 5 October 2026: Worldwide Cemeteries, a map of every burial place named on the site, and the Marlatt stones at Konkle-Marlatt Cemetery in Ontario.
- 4 October 2026: an 1835 will from Upper Canada: Abraham Marlatt of Clinton Township, the “other” Abraham born in 1773. Also a sheriff’s sale of the property of Daniel Malott of Maryland, the first record here of slaveholding in the family.
- 2 October 2026: the Marlatts of Berkeley County, Virginia, sorted out: John Marlatt of Ohio gets his probable parents, with twelve new people and a dozen corrected pages.
Where they lived
People with a birth, marriage, or death recorded in each place.