Probably resided in the vicinity of Issigeac. He is identified as the nephew of the Gélieu brothers, ministers, who fled in 1685, but neither he nor Jean Melon were able to take possession of the brothers' estates. However, the dispute on this subject before the parlement of Bordeaux generated some interesting documents. So far, we have found no mention of him in the surviving church records of Issigeac or Eyrenville. It is possible that he resided in a neighboring parish.
The transcript of the dispute over the estates of the exiled ministers is available as a PDF file. The documents give no indication where either Pierre or Jean Melon lived, apart from their titles, Sr. de
Croze and Sr. de Camperdon, respectively.
A refugee identified as "F. Membrini" was granted citizenship at Vevey in 1687. A notation dating from about 1811 indicates this family was extinct at Vevey by 1763.
Marguerite was the widow of Pierre brother of Elie Dutoit. But in 1611, the wife of Pierre, brother of Elie, is listed as Catherine. Neither of these marriages has been found. Also, there is a Marguerite Malingre who appears as the wife of Pierre Dutoit hoste who lived at Donneloye.
Proof that the Pierre Dutoit who married Marguerite was the one who had previously married Catherine Socquet was finally located in the records of Jaques Jaquier, notary at Moudon (ACV DL 52/1 fol. 251). A settlement recorded by Jaquier on 08 oct 1629 relates to "difficulties" that arose between Marguerite Menoz, widow of the late Pierre Dutoit, hoste, and his children Gaspard and Marguerite, by his first wife Catherine Socquet. The document also names Pierre's brother Elie, and two nephews of Marguerite Menoz, Pierre and Bernard Malherbe. The document is accompanied by an inventory of debts and other financial instruments, which, unfortunately, does not seem to reveal very much about Pierre. Among the provisions is the stipulation that she renounces any claim to the inn of La Croix Blanche, on the Rue Granardiez "avecq les places, curtilz, grange et estableries y adjacentz", in favor of the children Gaspard and Marguerite Dutoit. She gets the household furnishings that she claims as her own, and will pay 300 florins to her step-son Gaspard to establish him in the profession of "verrier" (glasier).
(In spite of these provisions, we find Bernard Malherbe cited in the church records of Moudon as hoste at La Croix Blanche in 1647. He or his family must have purchased the inn from Gaspard and Marguerite Dutoit.)
The small minutaire that has survived from the same notary (ACV DL 52/2) contains two brief notes dated 02 dec 1613 and 19 jan 1614, in which Marguerite Menoz is identified as the wife of Bastian Malherbe, and in the second of these, she had loaned 1000 florins to Antoine Dutoit and his son Felix. Thus, her nephews Pierre and Bernard Malherbe, must be sons of a brother of her first husband. At least Bernard seems to have lived at Orbe, but by 1647-1648 we find a Bernard Malherbe, this time with a daughter Esther at least 15 years of age, running La Croix Blanche at Moudon. Did Marguerite also have a son Bernard by her first husband?
