DEARMAN & MOLLETT

Family legend has it that the Molletts are descended from Huguenots, but as you can see from the line of descent above, that legend has virtually been disproved, though not quite - maybe Thomas Mollet came from France, or maybe it was one of the wives who is the Huguenot.

The list of ancestors at the top of the page, owes much to Margaret Cran who kindly shared her research.  I have checked and confirmed as far back as the first Robert and can be pretty sure of the line until there.  I am continuing to work on those who are further back, so it could all change!

Until around 1800 the Molletts were based in Norwich in various of the very many parishes there.  Around that time one of the Roberts left the city for the big smoke of London (the younger one I think).  And he definitely lived all of his adult life there, although he was born in Norwich.

In Norwich the Molletts were associated mostly with Norwich’s major industry - textiles, but there was at least one baker in the mix too.  The second Robert was a pastrycook, but his children and their descendants became financiers and accountants, rising to prosperity and then falling again.

The current descendants of this line are split between Sussex and Melbourne, Australia with the only male bearers of the name now in France and London.