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The following is taken from a publication in the Sea Coast Echo written by Maude Ladner (Gary Ladner's aunt) on August
2,	1979:
Luis Christian de L'Adner, a Swiss, was exiled from France for dealing in black market salt. He arrived on the Mississippi Coast in 1719 and was described as having blue eyes, black hair, and being 5 feet 4 inches tall. He was 20 years old and he traveled alone.
Old deeds and records show various spellings of the name: Ladnier, De L'Adner, L'Adnier and Ladner. For a time, De L'Adner worked at the Chaumont Plantation on the Pascagoula River. In 1723 the plantation was destroyed by a hurricane.
By that time, he had married, and with his wife and their two small children moved to Cat Island. According to Dale Greenwell, local historian, the original Christian de L'Adner was 100 years old when he was confirmed on Deer Island by the Catholic Church.
The following stories are from Clarence Ladner:
There were three brothers. Two came over with Iberville and Bienville; one was in the Foreign Legion in Canada. When this brother fround out his brothers were in Biloxi, he left the Foreign Legion to join them. Winter caught him on the Canadian border, so he spent the winter there. There is a town named Ladner near Vancouver named after him and some Ladners still live there.
The Ladners originally owned from Pascagoula to Pearlington (documented in Archives in Jackson).
Christian Ladner left Biloxi and went to get more supplies in Spain, and a Senor and Senora returned on the voyage with him. On the way back, Christian and the woman fell in love, and they threw her husband overboard. She eventually got depressed thinking of the deed. Christian, fearful that she would tell the authorities, did not return to Biloxi, but instead ran aground at Pass Christian (hence the name). He dropped her off and went to Biloxi to resign his post. Afterwards, he returned to the Pass and cared for his wife and had lots of kids. Her name was Marianne. We are descended from him.
If anyone can find where he is buried, the Coast Historical Society will build a monument to him and the Ladners.