PEDIGREE XXIV - MALLABY (MALHERBY ?)

I.  Francis Mallaby.  His father is supposed to have come from England, but his name is not known.  Francis had four sons.  He was an old man, and died when Theodore was a child.

    II.  1.  Theodore Mallaby.

    II.  2.  Francis Mallaby.

    II.  3.  Oliver Mallaby.

    II.  4.  Thomas Mallaby.

II.  1.  Theodore Mallaby m. when past middle age, a Miss Bleecker.  (Ancestry traced many generations.)  They had a dau., Miss Theodora F. Mallaby of New York City, who kindly furnished this record.

II.  4.  Rev. Thomas Mallaby of Stonington, Conn., m. Mary N. Taylor, of Kingston.  They were married by J. D. S. Pardoe and C. H. Bixbey, Feb. 2, 1878.  (Vide Vital Rec. of Rhode Island, p. 594.)

Note. – I have not a Maulsby Genealogy at hand, but do not think from the names that the above are a branch of that family.  Personally I am inclined to think this family connected with a “N. Malherby,” who signs a petition to Lord Cornby, at New York in 1702.  The petition was signed by 346 persons from New York and Provinces (from a Hist. of Erie Co., N. Y., Vol. IV., p. 1006).  This French form of Malherby would certainly be Anglicized into Mallaby.

A letter from Arthur Lee, Paris, May 22, 1779, to Samuel Adams, concerning Benjamin Franklin has the following: “Please to enclose your letters a Monsieur le Marquis de Malsherbe, Minister d’Etat, a Paris.” (Ref. N. Y. Hist. Soc. Papers, 1891, p. 465.)  This may be the branch of the family whom descendants claim were French Huguenots and settled somewhere near New Rochelle, New York.

In 1626 (p. 425, State and Domestic Papers, 64.  Date Sept. 11, 1626) there is a petition of John Malherbe, Master of the “Frencis” of St. Maloes.  His ship was bound from St. Maloes to Calais and was stayed by a King’s ship and brought to Dover.  This French branch is doubtless of the same stock as the English, though possibly one would have to trace back prior to the Norman Conquest to prove it.