The following shows an outline of the relevant part of the large and complex Travers tree (ref 2):
| G11 |
Bryan Travers ( - aft 1583) = Anne ? ( - ) | ||||||||||||||
| G10 |
John Travers ( - 1618) = Susan Spenser (sister of Edmond Spenser) ( - ) | ||||||||||||||
| G9 |
Robert Travers ( - 1647) = 1638 Elizabeth Boyle ( - ) | ||||||||||||||
| G8 |
Richard Travers ( - 1700) = 1657 Eleanor Staywell ( - ) |
John Travers (ca 1645 - 1712) = Mary Scudamore ( - ) | |||||||||||||
| G7 |
The Very Rev. John Travers (1663 - 1727) = Cassandra Sampson ( - 1740) |
Boyle Travers (1676 - 1755) = 1699 Alice Garstin ( - 1748) | |||||||||||||
| G6 |
Robert Travers ( - 1763) = 1733 Elizabeth Newman ( - 1762) |
Robert Travers (ca 1715 - ) = 1735 Harriet Newenham ( - aft 1750) | |||||||||||||
| G5 |
John Travers ( - 1791) = 1768 Mehetable Colthurst ( - 1824) |
John Travers (ca 1731 - 1824) = 1764 Elizabeth Sampson ( - ) | |||||||||||||
| G4 |
Sir James Conway Travers (KH) (1776-1841) = 1816 Mary Steward ( - ) |
Sir Eaton Stannard Travers (KH) (1777-1858) = 1815 Ann Palmer Steward ( -1864) |
Arabella Travers ( - 1839) | = 1788 |
Robert Travers (1764 - 1847) |
Boyle Travers (1784 - 1841) = 1814 Caroline Brockman ( - 1889) | |||||||||
| G3 |
Isobel Russell Travers ( - 1867) = 1824 Thomas Fowler Steward (note G4) ( - 1880) |
William Thomas Locke Travers (born Limerick?) (explorer NZ) | |||||||||||||
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note: Mary Travers (ca 1796 - 1867) m (1817) Richard Palmer Canter (ca 1796 - 1834) - where does she fit in? | |||||||||||||||
I can't help wondering if the close connections between the Steward, Palmer and Travers families also provides the link with the Guy and Canter families:
The only Travers family I can find with Limerick connections is that of William Thomas Locke Travers (see above). From the National Library of NZ: "William Thomas Locke Travers, F.L.S. (1819–1903), was born at Castleview, near Newcastle, in County Limerick". Newcastle West is just west of Limerick on the N21 and Castleview appears to be a 'suburb'.
From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ref 1):
In 1806 the Hercule returned to England, and in December Travers was appointed to the frigate Alcmène off the coast of France, until she was wrecked off the mouth of the Loire on 29 April 1809. He was afterwards in the Impérieuse, on the Walcheren expedition, and in 1810 in the Mediterranean, where for the next four years he was engaged in minor operations against the coasting vessels and coast batteries along the shores of France and Italy. He was repeatedly recommended by his captains and the commander-in-chief for his zeal, activity, and gallantry, but it was not until 15 June 1814 that he received the often-earned promotion to commander. He is said to have been upwards of 100 times engaged with the enemy; to have been in command at the blowing up and destruction of eight batteries and three Martello towers; and to have taken part in the capture of about sixty vessels, eighteen or twenty of them armed, and several cut out from under batteries.
The Impérieuse was paid off in September 1814. In April 1815 Travers married Anne Palmer, the eldest daughter of William Steward of Great Yarmouth; they had five sons and two daughters. He remained unemployed until the summer of 1828, when he was appointed to command the Rose (18 guns). From her he was advanced to post rank on 19 November 1829, mainly, it would seem, at the desire of the duke of Clarence. The latter, who knew of his long and active war service, later, as William IV, made him a KH (4 February 1834) and knighted him on 5 March 1834. Travers had no further employment afloat; he became rear-admiral on the retired list on 9 July 1855, and died at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 4 March 1858. He was a brave and resourceful amphibious officer who achieved belated recognition.