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Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family, 2010 THE ROUGH INDEX TO THE LE MESURIER FAMILY 4th Edition, Completely Revised and Updated By Ray Le Mesurier-Foster Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family, 2010 The Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family © 2010 Ray Le Mesurier-Foster Second edition, 1904 Third edition, 1910 Fourth edition, 2010 Copyright Notice This book is Copyright © 2010 Ray Le Mesurier-Foster and is made available under Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike License. This means that you are free to: • Share – copy distribute and transmit this work • Remix – to adapt this work Under the following conditions: • Attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) • Share Alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license. 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For further details please refer to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 2 Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family, 2010 Contents Contents .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction to the Rough Index 2010 .................................................................................................... 4 History of the Le Mesurier Family by Major H.F.A. Le Mesurier ............................................................. 6 Preface to Third Edition, 1910 ................................................................................................................. 8 Preface to Second Edition, dated 14 February 1904 ............................................................................. 10 ROUGH INDEX TO LE MESURIER OR LE MESSURIER PAPERS................................................................. 11 The de Gemmis family of Terlizzi, East Italy ........................................................................................ 326 Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 328 3 Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family, 2010 Introduction to the Rough Index 2010 For the last 12 years I have gradually been entering details of the vast family that my wife’s father left me. Together with my own Guernsey family I have accrued over 14,000 names mostly family, yet the Rough Index includes thousands of other names associated in some way to the family. As I am now in my 70’s, history and historic records is well in my blood and part of my life is devoted to restoring historic buses! Looking at the name in the heading, you may wonder whether “Le Messurier” is excluded. In my research I have found both versions are used frequently within the same family. My computer family history programme recognises all single ‘s’ and double ‘ss’ as the same. I have tried to enter most of the double ‘s’ in the Index. By the way, I am Ray Le Mesurier-Foster, proud to be a member of the Guernsey Robin family, an ancient line in the Island. I started in 1971, piecing together my complicated family tree, then in 1997 I attended the Family History exhibition in Guernsey and met a fellow historian, Mary Le Mesurier. When I married her at the end of 1997, I was to find that her home oozed Le Mesurier material. The task ahead was to locate everything together and start getting it all on the computer. The first Index was made by Col. Augustus Le Mesurier in 1904 then the second in 1910. Comprising 113 pages it has long been the bible of the family. However, time has gone by and a hundred years later we have so much more information availble, Census records, Birth, Marriage and death records ‘on line’, records from across the world, important documents stored in Archives. I have just to sit at home on my computer and gather in the information. Perhaps the best source of information is the availability of the Census records from 1841 to 1911, something that Col. Augustus could not get hold of. Hours, days, weeks, months of work on my computer has resulted in the document you now have, hopefully a wealth of family history, not just for Le Mesurier’s, but other Guernsey families. I have tried to keep a certain format throughout the Index and you should be able to follow it through quite easily, but if I have slipped up somewhere – sorry! I have wondered how I could distribute the finished project. A Book maybe? A few books will be produced but will go to specific places like the Priaulx Library. On a disc maybe. Yes, some will be made and distributed. But the best idea is to allow you to download it from a dedicated Web-site, free of charge! You possibly got yours from www.guernsey-society.org.uk and I hope you may even have thought that joining the Guernsey Society was a good idea – 3 mags a year! The other idea I have put into place is to split the Document into two parts, with the whole index in part one, other items of interest in part two. Then I am adding a section on photographs. I hope you have all three sections! I have not produced an index to find names as this computer version is searchable, but the best way to understand the Rough Index is to read it! Now for the Preface, written by Col. Augustus, and reproduced in full. Bear in mind that here and throughout the Index the Colonel does make comments. Mine will have “RLMF” after the comment! And just for the record I wish to thank:- Amanda Bennett at the Priaulx Library and all her staff. Transcribers of the original 1910 edition: Lloyd Brehaut, Karen-Anne Duncan, Diane Essex-Clark, Michele Gaylor, Orinda Spence, Joan Webster, Steve Marquis, Pam Hislop, Elizabeth Greef, Sally Patton, Syd Patterson, John Sabire, Ron Dobrée, Marion Mabire, Susan Patt, Janet Beach, Tina Norris Fields, Lorna Pratt, Richard Lawton, Janice Potter 4 Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family, 2010 Linda Holewa and the Clan Macrea Society of North America for the articles on Robert McCrea and his family. Alex Rose for the article about Job Le Mesurier and his family. Anyone else I may have missed. I suppose I should thank the late Major Hubert (Bruin) Le Mesurier, M.C. for providing a wonderful daughter, for had I not married her, this production would not have happened! There are bound to be mistakes in a work of such complexity so I apologise in advance. Corrections can be emailed to me and I am hopeful that the internet version of the Index will be updated from time to time. Ray Le Mesurier-Foster, JP. 5 Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family, 2010 History of the Le Mesurier Family by Major H.F.A. Le Mesurier Le Messurier is an ancient Guernsey name. It first appears in Guernsey records in 1274 in the form ‘Mesurier’ and then about the year 1300 as ‘Ie Mesurier’ or ‘Ie Masurier.’ There are various theories about its original meaning which depend on the way it was spelt before the days of printing. The most persuasive is that it was an occupational name describing ‘a person…engaged in measuring land or possibly vessels and boats.’ Guernsey is an extraordinary possession of the Crown of England – a small, triangular shaped island, about fifteen kilometres long, which is closer to France than to England about fifty kilometres from Normandy as compared with over a hundred from Devon. In 1800, when the first census was taken, it had a population of a little over 16,000. Like the other nearby Channel Islands of Jersey, Alderney, Herm and Sark, it formed part of the Duchy of Normandy when Duke William conquered King Harold of England at the battle of Hastings in 1066 and has remained in possession of the Crown of England ever since, despite the loss of mainland Normandy in 1204. Massive fortifications testify to the determination of the islanders to preserve their independence from France. But they have also insisted that Britain should allow them to retain their distinctive governing bodies, laws and courts – literally to be a law unto themselves. Only in the areas of defence and international relations have the islanders handed responsibility to the British Government. The official language continued to be French until 1926, and as late as 1947 some seventeen members of the Le Messurier family in Australia became involved in the toils of Guernsey feudal law when they were the sole heirs of the residues of the estates of two sisters, Matilda Godfray and Eliza Lihou, who had died within a short time of each other. Although it was nearly a century since their common Guernsey forbears had migrated to South Australia, the Australian heirs now received astonishingly long letters from the Channel Islands discussing such matters as escheating to the Crown and to the Lord of the Manor, ‘rentes’ of wheat, ‘propre paterneles’ and ‘propre materneles’, and inheritance ‘per stirpes’. Eventually the principal issues were determined by a sitting of the Royal Court of Guernsey on 22 April 1950. Most of the real estate went to the Crown and to the Lady of the Manor of Maux Marquis, the money, stocks, shares, and furniture went to fourteen of the seventeen heirs (three brothers evidently being excluded by virtue of belonging to a younger generation) and the proceeds from the sale of a field were distributed among all seventeen according to a complex formula which distributed amounts ranging from 2/81sts to 2/15ths, depending on the sex of the heir, the sex and number of his or her siblings, and the generation to which he or she belonged.
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