Richard Travers

Not a known son of Capt. Richard Travers, Armiger

Notes

A Pedigree with Biographical Sketches, of Devonshire Family of Travers. < Archive.Org >

… We have a theory (1 ), amounting almost to conviction, that he (Walter Travers) was a son of Richard Travers, citizen and merchant tailor of London (see note, p. 22), who died on or about 1540 ; and in whose will reference is made to his children collectively, without any mention of their respective Christian names. …

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The Herald and Genealogist, Volume 3. “Pedigrees of Travers.” Page 27. < GoogleBooks >

Another London family of the name, which flourished for several generations, descended from Richard Travers, citizen and merchant-taylor, who was born at Maidstone circ. 1480-5, and died in 1540. It was partly upon his estate that the Royal Exchange was erected by Sir Thomas Gresha He was father-in-law of Sir Thomas Blanck, Lord Mayor in 1582, and his great-grand-daughter was the wife of Sir John Dethick, another Lord Mayor. His posterity is traced to the end of the following century.

Walter Travers of Nottingham, goldsmith, whose will, made in 1757, is presented to us, is supposed to have been one of the sons of Richard Travers, merchant-taylor, of London. He was the father of Walter Travers, B.D. a celebrated Puritan divine, who became Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1594; and also of John Travers, Rector of Faringdon, co. Devon, who married Alice Hooker sister to the still more celebrated Master of the Temple. The latter had four sons, all beneficed clergymen, and the pedigree of this branch of Travers is amply exemplified for five generations.

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References

• “Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica”. Page 361. < Archive.Org > Richard Travers is not listed as part of the Devon family.