Minister at Lanquais and Perigord 1659-1675. A dossier concerning the abandoned estates of his three sons Daniel, Pierre, and Jean, ministers who fled in 1685 to Holland, has been difficult to analyze. Jean Melon, Sr. de Campredon, and Pierre Melon, Sr. de Croze (or de la Croze) both claimed the estates, but their relationship to each other is unknown. Jean Melon was married to Jeanne Clarmont, evidently the sister of the wife of Jean Gélieu.
Possessed a "noble fief" La Villote, near Periguex, as well as possessions La Gauterie and La Plantade near La Gélie. In the middle ages, the family Lacoste at La Gélie has the same arms as the later Gélieu family. In his testament, he requested to be buried in the cemetery of Eyrenville near his domaine of Villotes or La Villote. Testament dated 15 aug 1557, signed Poget, royal notary of Issigeac.
Age 20 when he witnessed his brother Bernard's marriage in 1602. The only later mentions are the baptisms of what must be his children at Yverdon. We have no other Jean of his generation in that area, unless another branch of the family from Issigeac reached Neuchâtel. If that had happened, the memoire of Bernardin Gélieu would have been very different, for both parts of the family would have known of the additional contacts. His earliest appearance in the registers at Yverdon seems to be 28 jul 1614, as a witness.
Minister at Montignac (1695). In the documents relating to the administration of his abandonned estates in France, it is stated that he and his brothers left no children, but presumably that means only that none remained in France. His closest heir in France was his nephew Pierre Meslon (or Melon) Sr. de Croze (or de la Croze) whose mother was a sister of Jean Gélieu.
Evidently 2 children of Jean named after him, both survived him. We are told of an ancient tradition in the Perigord of naming children after the hereditary properties of the parents, and one of these was named La Gaultry.
In one record, she appears as the wife of M. Grand apothecary of Morges at a baptism in St. Livres, as Madeleine, and the child is named Madeleine after her!
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However, a family record gives 1673 as the date of her baptism.
