« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 06 September 05 13:10 BST (UK) »
As far as I can see the Mollart name was jumping from generations and used as a middle name just in order to preserve the Mollart name.
I have three original handwritten trees for the Mollart family dating back to late 1600's in Paris (Jehan Mollart is the most distant name, and was born in Paris maybe around 1690's). His son William Mollart ('of Staffordshire and France') was the first to settle in the UK and his four children had numerous children of their own.
Perhaps the most famous (probable) descendant was John Mollart, who lived in Stoke on Trent and was a 'designer for the potteries'. I have yet to verify this info, though I know a J Mollart was a Wedgwood designer in 1806 and designed and engraved Wedgwood's first 'Willow Pattern' (the classic blue and white designs from that era).
He had 23 children, so the Mollart name was proliferating strongly. 13 of them wend to Sydney, Australia around 1835. and the others remained around Stoke of Trent, went to Congleton, Sandbach (some say Sandwich), and Manchester.
The Manchester Mollart link ended up with Hester Mollart marrying James Rogerson. The Mollart name then re-apperead a few generations later, hence quite a number of Mollart-Rogerson family are still around. maybe the same thing applied to the Mollart-Rivers name, though this is new to me.
Martin.
Baker, Beckett, Phillipps, Dickinson, Warnken, Leake, Salmon, Burford, Rogerson, Martin, Mollart, Chetwynd, Allsopp, Binnion, Pownall, Reynard, Lancaster, Oldham, Catton, Webb, Cake, Bingham, Gates, Horn, Molins, Mycroft, Wycherley, Parrot, Parry, Yeomans, Shipley, Stubbs, Tristram.
