La Molete History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of La Molete

The ancestral home of the La Molete family is the French region of Auvergne. La Molete was a name for someone who lived in the administrative regions of Cantal and Puy-de-Dôme. The place-name survives as Aveyron, an administrative region just to the south of the historical location of the province.

Early Origins of the La Molete family

Early History of the La Molete family

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La Molete Spelling Variations

Most surnames have experienced slight spelling changes. A son may not chose to spell his name the same way that his father did. Many were errors, many deliberate. During the early development of the French language, a person usually gave his version, phonetically, to a scribe, a priest, or a recorder. Prefixes or suffixes varied. They were optional as they passed through the centuries, or were adopted by different branches to signify either a political or religious adherence. Hence, there a many spelling variations of the name La Molete, including Mollette, Molete, Mollet, Mollite, Molet, de Mollette, la Molete, de la Mollet and many more.

Early Notables of the La Molete family

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Migration of the La Molete family

Migration from France to New France or Quebec as it was now more popularly called, continued from France until it fell in 1759. By 1675, there were 7000 French in Quebec. By the same year the Acadian presence in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island had reached 500. In the treaty of Utrecht, the Acadians were ceded by France to Britain in 1713. In 1755, 10,000 French Acadians refused to take an oath of allegiance to England and were deported. They found refuge in Louisiana. In 1793, the remaining French in these provinces came under British rule. Meanwhile, in Quebec, the French race flourished, founding in Lower Canada, one of the two great solitudes which became Canada. Many of this distinguished family name La Molete were prominent in social, cultural, religious and political affairs in France and New France. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name La Molete were Elizabeth Mollet, aged 21; settled in Philadelphia in 1774; G. Mollet, aged 50; settled in New Orleans in 1820; Edward Mollett who settled in Virginia in 1738.