established in Europe for over nine hundred years. The earliest documentation of the surname was found in 1181 from the county of Oxfordshire in England. This was a regular term throughout the Middle Ages in Southern England, but now the name is fairly widespread around the UK. During the period of the British Empire the name spread with the colonies to areas of America, Asia, India and Australia.
Messam is the 1017th most common name in Great Britain. The county of Somerset in the UK holds the greatest density of families with the surname Messam. Never too far from controversy 2 brothers Dean Messam and Luke Messam were sent to jail in 1895 for allegedly stealing a trophy. 124
Traits of the Messam family
Outgoing and friendly is how previous generations of the Messam family can be described. The Messam family have been linked to the planet Neptune causing them to be energetic, conscientious and contradictory. There is a side to Messams which can be deeply inteligent, and another, very irritable.