Messervy Stories

Some Messervy Statistics My genealogy software, MAC Family Tree, has a lot of bells and whistles including the capacity to produce statistical reports from the data in a particular tree. Of course, as with any software it is only as good as the data that is input. As my website data is a work in progress, there are some empty spots in the data. Thus,for those of you who are excited by statistics and patterns in data, what follows are some select charts. Enjoy or not..... Colours are traditional pink for women and blue for men (default). Some observations based on my familiarity with the Messervy content: ·        The spike for children 0 – 4 years of age likely reflects that most information is from times past when infants and toddlers were subject to a range of challenges to survival. In particular, the Messervys in Jersey go back to 1400s and earlier when families endured the deaths of many of their children.    ·        Another sp

Josué Messervy and his family emigrated from Jersey to Utah in the United States in 1853, undertaking a monumental journey from east coast US to Utah with the  Joseph W. Young Company .  The family first made a journey by sea to the United States, crossing to New Orleans on the  Golconda  and then made their way to Keokuk, Iowa to join the company of 402 individuals and 54 wagons.  The route they followed has been called the  Mormon Trail . The Messervys were a long way from their island home, with its history and culture reaching back to approximately 1100.  Josué was not a young man, but forty-six years of age, with his wife Jeanne Robert, about forty-one years of age.  Joining them on this prairie trek were their children Josué , age 19; Henrietta, age 17; John, age 14; Joseph Robert, age 11; Jane, age 10, James, age 7 and Ann Elizabeth, age 1. [1]  Tragically, their son Jacob, about three years of age, died on the sea journey.   They began the trek in January 1853 and by t