Family of Nicholas TRAVERS and his Irish wife /name unknown
I'm wanting to explore a family story of a French connection in the TRAVERS family and the information I have to date is summarised below. I would love to find the name and any details for the Irish woman that the French man Nicolas married.
Nicholas TRAVERS ( or French version could be Nicolas?? Traverse ) was a French” trader “who married Irish gal (who = ??) from Little Hills, County Kilkenny, in parish of Conihy, near Castlecomer and took her back to France ( most likely living in Normandy) Later it is said ?? he was conscripted for Napoleon and died somewhere in Europe
Their son = Edouard was born in France. After father Nicolas died, the Irish mother returned with French son Eduoard to Ireland.
Back in Ireland, this grandson Edouard /also called Ned also married an Irish gal ( = ? ) from same district ... Who was she??
They had son also called Nicholas ( # 2 ) who married Anastasia Carroll approx. 1833 near Castlecomer, Ireland and lived in Moyne
They had 9 children. Four sons went to Australia ( Edward/Ned, Joe, John and Denis ) Thomas went to USA, 5 grandchildren also later migrated to Australia
Migration to Australia
Edward or NED Travers ( 1836 -1922 ) came on “Storm Cloud” in 1857/58 and married Ellen Doran (they were family neighbours in Ireland)
They had 9 children including Thomas Travers , who had land @Rice Creek,nr Mintaroo, Bullyacre
Thomas Travers (1861 -1922 ) married Margaret Kinnane in 1887 at Pekina Catholic Church in SA.
Had 10 kids including Kathleen Travers ( = my grandmother ) who married James McKeough ( grandfather)1901 – at St Virgils, Yatina SA
Thomas and Kathleen had 4 children = Maureen, Lorraine, Vivienne, sisters of Edmund James McKeough (= my father) who married Patricia Watson (my mother)
Edmund and Pat McKeough had 4 girls = Noelle, (= me !) Margaret, Leonie and Kathryn ( my siblings)