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Anna Maria Messer
1859 - 1908 (49 years)
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Name Anna Maria Messer Born 15 Mar 1859 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England 
Christened 29 May 1859 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England Gender Female Died 14 May 1908 Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States Buried 17 May 1908 Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States Person ID I212 Bird-Metcalf Last Modified 6 Feb 2015
Father Thomas Messer, b. 7 Oct 1833, Handley, Dorset, England , d. 27 Apr 1911, Dean, Sixpenny Parish, Handley, Dorset, England (Age 77 years) Mother Georgiana Stainer, b. 15 Sept 1836, Denland, Dorset, England Married 27 Oct 1858 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England Family ID F442 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family John Bird, b. 7 Aug 1841, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom , d. 6 Jan 1932, Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States (Age 90 years) Married 15 Mar 1880 Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States Children 1. George Bird, b. 22 Jan 1881, Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho Territory, United States , d. 14 Oct 1966, Lava Hot Springs, Bannock, Idaho, United States (Age 85 years)2. Edith Georgina Bird, b. 24 Jul 1882, Bear Lake County, Idaho, United Stares , d. 25 Jan 1978, Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States (Age 95 years) [Birth]+ 3. Walter Bird, b. 14 Sept 1884, Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho Territory, United States , d. 10 Dec 1966, Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States (Age 82 years) [Birth]+ 4. Mona Marguerite Bird, b. 1894, d. 1989 (Age 95 years) [Birth] Last Modified 22 Dec 2014 Family ID F81 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 15 Mar 1859 - Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England 
Christened - 29 May 1859 - Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England 
Married - 15 Mar 1880 - Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States Died - 14 May 1908 - Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States Buried - 17 May 1908 - Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Photos 
Anna Maria Messer Bird
Mother of four children with John Bird
John Bird and Anna Maria Messer
Photo taken around 1880.Anna Maria Messer, 1859-1908
Documents 
The Baptism Record of Anna Maria Messer
Baptism Date: 29 May 1859
Baptism Place: Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England
Father: Thomas Messer
Mother: Georgiana Messer
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Dorset, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
1861 Census of Sixpenny Handley, Dorset England and the Family of Thomas Messer
Parish of Sixpenny:
Thomas Messer, 26 years old; married; born in Handley, Dorset; occupation is Ag Lab.
Georgina Messer, 24 year old wife; born in Handley, Dorset
Ann M. Messer, 2 year old daughter; born in Handley, Dorset
Mary A. Messer, 2 month old daughter; born in Handley, Dorset
Elizabeth Stainer, lodger, widowed; 62 years old
Ancestry.com. 1861 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1861.
1871 Census of Sixpenny Handley, Dorset England and the Family of Thomas Messer
District 15
Thomas Messer; 36 years old born in Handley, Dorset; employed as a Wheelwright
Georgina Messer; 34 years old born in Handley
Anne M. Messer; 12 year old daughter born in Handley; scholar
Mary A. Messer; 10 year old daughter born in Handley; scholar
George Messer; 8 year old son born in Handley; scholar
Finch Messer; 5 year old son born in Handley; scholar
Ellen Messer; 3 year old daughter born in Handley
Edith Messer; 4 month old daughter born in Handley
Source Citation
Class: RG10; Piece: 1982; Folio: 21; Page: 14; GSU roll: 830891
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1871 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Anna Messer as a Passenger on the Wyoming
Name: Anna Messer
Arrival Date: 9 Jul 1879
Birth Date: abt 1859
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/ Nationality: English
Place of Origin: England
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland
Destination: United States of America
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Wyoming
Source Information
Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Year: 1879; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Microfilm Roll: Roll 418; Line: 4; List Number: 733
The Marriage of John and Ann (Messer) Bird
Married in Bear Lake Territory of Idaho on the 17th of January, 1880.
1900 Census of Paris, Bear Lake County, Idaho
John Bird, born Aug 1841 in England, 58 years old; married 20 years; farmer; immigrated in 1855.
Annie M. Bird, born Mar 1859 in England, 41 years old; four children, immigrated in 1879.
Minnie Bird, born Oct 1877 in Idaho, 22 years old
George Bird, born Jan 1881 in Idaho, 19 years old
Edith Bird, daughter, born July 1882 in Idaho, 17 years old
Walter Bird, son, born Sept 1884 in Idaho, 15 years old
Mona M. Bird, daughter, born Dec 1894 in Idaho, 5 years old.
The Autobiography of John Bird, 1841-1932
As told to Mary Anona Bird on January 20, 1931 when John was eighty-nine years old.
The life of John Bird who was born on August 7, 1841 in Birmingham, England. He is the son of John Bird and Ann Russen. This document references the Bird family and their journey by ship to America as well as their settling in Utah with the Mormon saints. He tells of his two wives and his nine children. He also verifies that his father, John, died from cholera at Atchinson, Kansas as they crossed the plains.
Headstones 
The Headstone of John and Annie M. (Messer) Bird
Burial:
Paris Cemetery
Paris
Bear Lake County
Idaho, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 73142048
Histories 
John Bird and Mary Jane Whitehead Bird by Anona Bird Grandy
A life sketch published in the book "History of Bear Lake Pioneers"
History of Bear Lake Pioneers. Edith Parker Haddock and Dorothy Hardy Matthews. Paris, Idaho: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Bear Lake County, Idaho. 1968.