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| | Trevors Crests (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The family of Travers may be of English or Irish origins most anciently. |
 | | ME travers, later travas, traves, travis, corresponds to two OFr nouns, travers (m) and traverse (f), "the act of passing through a gate or crossing a river, bridge, etc.", used of a toll paid on passing the boundary of a town or lordship (toll-traverse 1284 NED). |
 | | In 1285 (QW) the Bishop of Norwich claimed that he and his predecessors were accustomed to take a certain Travers at South Elmham (Suffolk) from foreign merchants crossing a certain bridge with merchandise towards Beccles, Yarmouth and Bungay for the upkeep of the bridge. |
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