5. The Melancon Family
There is a lot of conjecture about the origins of the Melancon (Melanson) family. However the family were living in a French district of London in 1642, with the name Merazon. There are many who suggest that his wife was English. That is not proven, rather it is more probable that she was also French, and that they had some sort of relationship with Major Germaine Doucet. One of the earliest relatives is Petri Merazon and his wife Priscillae. He was no doubt a French person, who lived in London in 1837. In all likelihood he lived in the Upper Brittany Region in France. The family name was most likely a derivative of Merazon. In 1670 Marie Marazin was born in Bourges, and many other family names of similar sounds can be sourced in the Berry region of France. But Petri Merazon also called himself La Verdure. That has been translated into so many different derivatives. Petri married a lady by the n...