The Jersey Messervy Latter Day Saints
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