Travers Family History
Travers Name Meaning
English and French: occupational name for a gatherer of tolls
exacted for the right of passage across a bridge, ford, or other
thoroughfare, from Middle English, Old French travers
‘passage’, ‘crossing’, from Old French traverser ‘to cross’.Northern Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Treabhair (see Trevor).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Travers Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Travers families
 112 - 221  38 - 111 |
 1 - 37  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Travers families
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121 - 240 41 - 120 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Travers families
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83 - 163 28 - 82 |
1 - 27 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Travers Family Origin
Travers Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Travers
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Travers Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Travers census records
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