When Jean Messervy was born about 1384, in Trinity, Jersey, his father, Jean Messervy, was 46 and his mother, Mrs. Jean Messervy, was 42. He married Jeanne Lempriere about 1406, in Saint Martin, Jersey. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in Jersey.
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Channel Islands (Jersey): nickname from Norman French messervi ‘ill-served, ill-used’. The 12th-century Anglo-Norman chronicler Wace mentions someone as son frere messervi ‘his ill-used brother’. Compare Meserve and Meservey .
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