♂Francois Mollere

Francois Mollere (born 14 October 1790) was a Louisiana man of the Ascension and Iberville settlements who married twice, first a widow and then a woman of his own surname. He was the son of Joseph François Mollere (1764–1811) and Ozite Barbe Blanchard (1763–1799), and the brother of Barbe Osite Mollere (1784–1823), the third great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014). He is not the Francois Mollere of Bordeaux, his grandfather.

Birth

He was born on 14 October 1790 and baptized on 8 August 1791 in the church of Ascension, at what is now Donaldsonville, where the register enters him as “Francisco”. His sponsors were Antoine Blanchard and Margarita Lacroix. His parents had married at Ascension in 1783, and the later baptisms of the family’s children took place at St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish.

Marriages

On 22 February 1811 he married Marie Bourgeois, entered as “of St. John”, the widow of Jean Vives and the daughter of Dominique Bourgeois and Marguerite Lagrange. The register gives his residence as Iberville. The witnesses were her father, Dominique Bourgeois, Andre LeBlanc and Joseph Blanchard. His father died later that year, on 30 August 1811.

On 15 June 1816 he married Ozite Molere, native and resident of Ascension Parish; her parents are not given. In this entry both of his parents are described as deceased, and he is called a native of Iberville and a resident of Ascension on Bayou Lafourche, although his baptism was entered at Ascension. The witnesses were Louis and Anne Landry Molere and Jerome Gaudet; Louis and Anne Landry Molere are most likely his uncle Louis Mollere and aunt, who had married at Ascension in 1789. The records examined do not say how Ozite Molere was related to him, if she was. No record of his death has been found.