Standing: Emilie and Alexander Mathey, Sitting: Rosalie and Joseph Mathey Standing: Lucy, Louisa, Josephine, Joseph, Catherine, Mary Antionette. Sitting: Joseph and Marie Rosalie. The Mathey family were my Swiss ancestors who immigrated to Manitowoc, Wisconsin before the Civil War. One of Mathey's granddaughters, Louisa Greenwood, recalled what she knew of the Mathey family history. "Joseph Antoine Mathey was a young soldier in France who, while on duty, met and fell in love with Maria Rosalie Teraze, a Swiss girl who tended sheep on the mountainside. When his father heard about it, he told him to go to his Swiss girl and not to ever bring her near him. They married and then came over here with a bunch of Swiss friends" It's not clear if Joseph was a French soldier or a Swiss soldier, but he identified himself as Swiss in all his records in the U.S. from the New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, Ship Brother Jonathan, Le Havre, France ...