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FAMILY OF VICTOR LADNER
LAKESHORE, HANCOCK COUNTY, MS
Submitted by Norma Jean Ladner Soroe October 20, 1994
According to Mrs. John D. Moran of Hattiesburg, the first authentic record she found on the origin of the Ladners was the listing of a "Louis Christianne of Paris" on the ship LA MARIE, May-25,	171J3, bound for Colonial Louisiana, and he is listed on this
ship as a Concessionaire (which means a person coming to the colonies or concessions) . On the same ship, the LA MARIE, in 1719^ a Christian Ladner, Tobacco Smuggler, age 20, 5 feet 4 inches tall, with "chatain" (chestnut) hair, is listed. (Note:	There was only-
one Christian Ladner.)
Pass Christian and Pass Marianne are named for Christian Ladner and his wife.
Documented information is this:	Christian Ladner
("Christianne Letdener") was born in 1699 in the Canton of Lucerne. He came to the Colonies. He married Marie Barbe Counal. They had three sons:	Jean Baptiste "Christian", born 9/12/1724; Mathurin
"Christian", born 1725; and Nicholas "Christian", born 1727. Mathurin	Ladner	dit	Christian	(called Christian) lived	on Horn
Island off Pascagoula. Nicholas Ladner dit Christian lived on Cat Island off Long Beach. Jean Baptiste Ladner dit Christian lived his adult life in Hancock County on the Jordan River. He died prior to 17 84. The Ladners in Hancock County are descended for the most part from Jean Baptist Ladner and his wife, Marie Fisseau "DeLorme".
Nicholas Ladner dit Christian was granted ownership to Cat Island in 1781 by the Spanish regime, and was granted additional land on what became Old Chimneys Settlement. After the house was destroyed by fire, its two chimneys were used as navigation aids by the mariners. (Gulf Park College stands on this spot.)
L'Adnier,	L'Adner,	Ladnier, Ladner:	My	great-
grandfather, Victor Ladner (Ladnier) , dropped the "i" from his name before 1895. His Civil War records and official papers are all under Ladnier, and so is the headstone on his grave. (Aunt Clara had a document from a timber company in New Orleans addressed to Victor asking him why he signed his name Ladnier at times and at other times Ladner.)
(NOTE:	The	story handed down is that there	was a	Ladnier
who	was	a pig	thief. The	Ladniers wanted to	disassociate
themselves with such a person so they dropped the "i" and became Ladners.)