♀Eliza Gertrude Mollere

Eliza Gertrude Mollere (born after 1800) was a daughter of the Iberville militia officer Joseph François Mollere (1764–1811) and his second wife, Magdalena Braux, and the half-sister of Barbe Osite Mollere (1784–1823), third great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014). On 13 October 1828, at Ascension, she married Jean Henry Ilsley, entered in the register as “of London, England”.

Family and marriage

Her parents had married at St. James on 28 October 1800, and she was a child of that second marriage; her brother Raphael was the other child of the union found in the registers. Her father had died in 1811, and the marriage entry names her as the daughter of Joseph, deceased, and “Manette” Braud, the register’s spelling of her mother’s name. Her husband was the son of Francois Ilsley and Anne Peny, and the witnesses to the wedding were William Hatkinson, Auguste Bonnet and Edward Hatkinson.

The couple’s son George Henry Ilsley was born on 22 August 1829 and baptized the next day at Ascension. His godparents were Hippolite Vives, written Hypolite in the register, and Delphine Landry. Vives was the husband of Eliza’s half-sister Eulalie, so the child was sponsored from within her family.

Notes

The registers give no birth date, death or burial for Eliza, and no further children. A woman called Elisa or Marie Gertrude Elisa Mollere appears as a sponsor in Ascension baptisms between 1818 and 1828, but a cousin, Marie Gertrude Mollere, daughter of Louis Mollere and Anne Landry, was living at the same time and married Edward LeBlanc in 1821, so those entries cannot be assigned to either woman.