When John Milton Travis was born on 27 August 1801, in Kentucky, United States, his father, William Travis, was 23 and his mother, Lydia Gray, was 19. He married Mary Ann Orr on 22 September 1825, in Lawrence, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 11 August 1856, in Lawrence, Illinois, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Bridgeport, Lawrence, Illinois, United States.
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English (mainly Lancashire and Yorkshire): from Old French and Middle English travers, also Middle English travas, travis, a word with several meanings. It may denote a toll paid for the right to cross a boundary or bridge, the surname perhaps being for someone who paid or collected such tolls. Alternatively, it may mean ‘crosswise, sideways’ or ‘dispute, disagreement’. The Old French word also had the sense ‘crossing, passage’, and it is more than likely that the surname is Norman in origin, for someone who lived at a crossing place or at a place so named (compare French Travers 3). The presence of the preposition ‘de’ (and perhaps also ‘le’) in early forms of the surname appears to indicate a topographic or habitational explanation, but the French preposition and definite article were sometimes added gratuitously to Norman surnames as a sign of their high social status. See also Travers 1.
Americanized form of German Drewes .
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