What’s new

Updates to Malott.net since the redesigned site went live on 24 September 2026, newest first. Many of these came from records, photos and stories that family and fellow researchers have shared. Thank you. If you have something to add, please get in touch.

  1. Paul Marlatt’s grave, and a round of corrections

    • Paul Marlatt (1772–1844), the cousin who went to Canada with Abraham, is buried at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Grimsby. His marker reads “Paul, father of Isaac Marlatt.” The cemetery is on the Worldwide Cemeteries map.
    • Corrections from a check of the whole site: a marriage dated 1883 that should be about 1783 (Michael Marlett), a stray marriage removed from Merle, Gideon Marlett’s duplicate birth dates and burial place, and several misspelled place names.
    • Isaac Marlatt (1803–1876) now stands as the son of Paul and Elsie Wilcox of Grimsby, as Paul’s grave marker says, and not of John Marlatt and an Elizabeth Willcox born in 1746. That second Elizabeth has been removed.
    • More consistency fixes: Gedeon Merlet is now c. 1624–1684 on every page, with a note on how those dates were reached; the Family Timeline now shows Abraham Marlett’s death in 1716; and two small cropped portraits that opened a missing file were removed from the Photo and Image Gallery.
    • The two entries for Paul Marlatt born 1772 were merged into one: Paul Marlatt of Grimsby, with a note on the parentage that was set aside.
    • The Places page was rebuilt from every page on the site, so it now includes the newer additions (Ohio 110 people, New Jersey 50, Virginia 26, and so on), and the people counts on People and Family Lines were corrected to match.

  2. Worldwide Cemeteries, and a family burial ground in Ontario

    • A new map, Worldwide Cemeteries: every burial place named on the site, nineteen so far, from Peoria County, Illinois, to Washington, D.C., and Lincoln County, Ontario, with who is buried in each.
    • The stone of Mary, “wife of Abraham Marlatt,” and five more Marlatt stones at Konkle-Marlatt Cemetery, beside Abraham Marlatt’s farm in Upper Canada. Photographs by Sharon Mattiuz, CanadaGenWeb’s Cemetery Project.
    • Mary Mills (c. 1787–1858) is now shown with the right family: daughter of John Mills, wife of Peter Null and partner of Abraham Marlatt of Upper Canada, not the wife of Ambrose Marlatt. With thanks to Amy Brennan.
    • Abraham’s cousin Paul Marlatt, who went to Canada with him, is identified; and Gideon Marlett (1753–1823) of Jasper, New York, has his dates, his burial place and a note on the two views of his parentage.
    • The public life of Col. Daniel Malott of Washington County, Maryland: militia colonel in 1812, magistrate, canal and railroad committeeman, and elected to county office just before his death in 1834.

  3. An 1835 will from Upper Canada, and a sheriff’s sale in Maryland

    • A page for Abraham Marlatt (c. 1773–1835) of Clinton Township, in the Niagara District, with his will, his farm and his seven children. He has long been confused with the Abraham Marlatt of Ohio who was baptised the same year. With thanks to Amy Brennan for the will and estate papers.
    • A sheriff’s sale of the property of Daniel Malott of Washington County, Maryland, a brother of Dory. It lists fifteen enslaved men, women and children, and is the first record on this site of slaveholding in the family.
    • Five more photographs on the Headstones page. A family monument gives death dates for Peter Malott (1786–1826), his wife Martha and their son Solomon; and the age on Dory Malott’s 1845 headstone confirms his birth on 7 December 1755. Two stones are posted with open questions.

  4. The Marlatts of Berkeley County, sorted out

  5. The Cousin Connector, and family history sites for others

    • Your Family History, Online and Your Own: I now help other families build sites like this one.
    • The new Cousin Connector: pick any two people on the site to see how they are related, through their nearest common ancestor and on back to Gideon Merlet.
    • A correction: Abraham Marlett (1656–1716), Gideon’s son, is now shown as the man who married Elizabeth and left the Piscataway will of 1714. His son Abraham (born 1680) probably died young. Six children moved up a generation, so every Marlett and Marlatt line through them, including the Marlatts of Kansas, is one generation closer to Gideon. Both pages explain the evidence.

  6. Dory Malott in his own words, a gallery of every image, and the Marlatts of Kansas

    • The Revolutionary War pension files of Theodore “Dory” Malott and his brother John: their sworn accounts of 1832, with Dory’s signature, telling of marching to join Washington in 1776, butchering for the prisoners at Fort Frederick, and building huts at Valley Forge. They settle Dory’s birth date as 7 December 1755, from his father’s Bible.
    • New dates for Margaret Waits Malott (1832–1908), and a link to a photograph of Prather Malott’s original gravestone.
    • Three famous Marlatts are proven cousins: entomologist Charles Lester Marlatt, whose 1910 report sent Tokyo’s first gift of cherry trees to the bonfire and who won the Plant Quarantine Act of 1912; his sister Abby Lillian Marlatt, a pioneer of home economics; and his niece Abby Marlatt, a Kentucky civil rights leader. Their line runs from Gideon through Abraham and the Virginia Marlatts to Washington Marlatt, a founder of the college that became Kansas State. See Famous Namesakes.
    • The Photo and Image Gallery now lists every photograph, document, map and illustration on the site, with where each came from and links to the people and pages it belongs to.

  7. The Buckeye Log Cabin, Bud’s line, and Simon Girty

  8. Three censuses, Delos’s marriage and draft, and Dory’s family

    • The 1850 census finds Prather Malott, born in Maryland, farming in Green Township with his wife Sarah and three children new to the site, including Hugh C., very likely the Calvin Malott who lived next door to Delos in 1870.
    • Delos C. Malott’s 1853 marriage record, his 1863 draft registration, and his household in the 1870 census, with the Malott neighbors around him.
    • The 1910 census of Sterling Township, which raises the question of whether Lou Anna was still living, six years after the date on her stone.
    • A Lane family history adds dates for Ann Lane and five more children of Theodore “Dory” Malott; his 1965 headstone application gives his Revolutionary War service in full and his pension number.
    • Robert E. Malott’s U.S. Navy portrait.
    • This What’s New page, listing every update since the launch.

  9. Maps, a family Bible and new portraits

  10. Gideon in the New World, and new DNA results

    • The Company’s Offer: Gideon’s own entry in the Dutch West India Company’s ledger of passage money, 175½ guilders for the crossing of 1662.
    • The Staten Island Years: the family’s twenty years under Dutch and English rule, from Gideon’s work as constable to the move to New Jersey.
    • Big Y-700 DNA results show that the Malott and Mellott line from Theodore (1694) is genetically distinct from Gideon’s; see the DNA update. Theodore’s 1694 baptism fixes his birth date.
    • New artists’ conceptions, created with AI and labeled as such, illustrate the 1662 crossing and the English takeover of 1664.
    • A new section on the About page on how this site was built.

  11. A state representative, a lost daughter, and famous namesakes

  12. A ship, a captivity and a Civil War soldier

  13. Launch

    The redesigned Malott.net goes live

Malott.net was first registered in October 1997. Earlier versions of the site, including William Marlatt’s original AOL site, were retired when this one launched.