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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Channel Islands; Meservé) : unexplained.
  • Clement Meserve (born 1645 in Gorey Grouville, Jersey, in the Channel Islands) came to Portsmouth, NH, in about 1670. His grandson Nathaniel, who had 11 children, was one of the 12 leading men who purchased claims to NH territory in 1746.

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