Boyle (Capt) TRAVERS

• BIRTH: CIR 1784
• DEATH: 10 AUG 1841

• MARRIAGE: 25 APR 1811

1. Julius (Lt. Col.) Brockman TRAVERS

• MARRIAGE: 3 NOV 1814

1. William Thomas Locke TRAVERS

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Caroline Josephine TRAVERS

• BIRTH: 30 NOV 1857 [S116]
• DEATH: 26 JUN 1940 [S116]

• MARRIAGE: 14 OCT 1875

1. Guy Lancelot OLLIVIER
2. (son) OLLIVIER
3. (dau) OLLIVIER

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Julius (Lt. Col.) Brockman TRAVERS

1. Caroline Josephine TRAVERS

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William Thomas Locke TRAVERS

• OCCUPATION: Lawyer

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Notes

TRAVERS, William Thomas Lock (1819-1903) was born at Castle View, Lewcastle, Co. Limerick and was educated in France chiefly at the College of St Servan. He then entered the British Foreign Legion for the Carlid? War in Spain; he fought on the Royalist side. He was a Lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of Lancers in which he served 3 years (1835-38) and won a decoration for gallantry. When he returned to England he studied for law and was admitted a solicitor in london in 1844 and practised in Chipping Camden and Evesham. He embarked for Nelson in the Kelso, arriving 1849. He was at once admitted to the bar and commenced to practise. He was elected to represent Nelson in the first NZ parliament in 1853 and was a member of Forsaillis exec. in the constitutional crisis in 1894. He demanded the Government should undertake responsibility for education throughout the colony instead of leaving it to the Provinces. In the second Parliament he represented Waimea 1854-59. He stood for the Superintendency of Nelson against Stafford in 1855 and was unsuccesful and was then appointed a district judge; but he soon went into private practice. He carried out considerable explorations in Nelson Province with Christopher Maling, a Nelson surveyor; they looked particularly for passes to the West Coast. They found the source of the Maruia River and discovered and named the Ada Pass in Feb 1860. He scattered Spencerian names about that part of the South Island - Spencer Mountains, the Fairie Queen, Irma, Lake Guynon; also Crimean names, then popular. He got a pasturage licence for Lake Guyon, mostly "mountains and rocks and fine scenery." Lake Guyon was north of Stonley Vale. Lake Guyon was later advertised on account of mortgages as of 20,000 acres, carrying 350 cattle. He settled in Canterbury and was a partner in the firm of Louis, Travers and Hammer. He left Nelson in 1864 but returned in 1865 and the firm became Travers, Hammer and Harper. He left this firm in Feb 1866. Leonard Harper writing to Selfe said "He is a really clever lawyer and and agreeable man and honorable and generous (without principle if you can understand what I mean). I found his political activities not for the good of the firm. He was keenly interested in botany, geology and sent his son Henry to make a collection of Chatham Island flora. These were sent to Professor Ferdinand Mueller to be arranged and classified. Mueller's book was said to be full of inaccuracies. Travers bore all the expenses of publication. He had a collection of mosses? which he used to send to Horticultural Soc for exhibition at their shows. In Nov 1865 he announced himself as a candidate for the Superintendency for which Moorhouse and J Lance were already standing. He may have done this to get publicity; he never had any chance of being elected. The figures were: Moorhouse 1479, Lance 742, Travers 176. The Lyttelton Times writing on Travers, "His ability, wit, frankness, oratorical powers are not questioned; and yet there is not man in Canterbury who would secure a more nearly unanimous vote of no confidence. Brilliant, but not sound; energetic but changeable; fickle, flighty, bent more on distinguishing himself than on promoting the welfare of the public; fonder of making a good speech than of carrying out a good work, he would be a dangerous man as Superintendent. He has always been heartily welcomed; his opponents have spoken of some of his public as treats; but there are very few who would trust themselves to his discretion.." This is of course a piece of fireworks and probably does him less than justice, but it seems not far from the truth. A side light on one of his elections; on polling day at Kaiapoi Traver's committee made an arrangement with Hammet, an hotel-keeper, that every man who voted for Travers should get a dinner and as much beer as he could drink after he had voted. (before the days of secret ballots). Hammett sued J Matthews, for the committee, for 30 pounds and swore he had supplied 100 dinners. Matthews paid 11 pounds into court and the Bench gave judgement for 11 pounds. Haast describe him as a character, versatile, ambitious, opportunist, well read, interested in Maori lore, science, botany zoology, acclimatisation, politics, in which he was chameleon-like in his views - a real "wild Irishman". Haast described how Travers, going to Wellington to appear in a case, disguised himself in old clothes and spent his time in the steerage talking to the witness for the other side. He continued the same tactic in Wellington playing billards with the witness and learning their proposed evidence. In the famous case Baker v Schroder, he appeared for Schroder and afterwards wrote a letter to the Wellington Independent accusing the judge (Grierson) of showing partiality towards Baker. He also said he knew exactly how the jury voted and gave the numbers but not the names. The Lyttelton Times said it was a grossly improper letter. Travers differed from Haast on glacial theories and in the end this difference undermined their friendship. In 1867 he brought forward motions hostile and even insulting to Haast. In Feb 1867 he stood for Fitzgerald's seat (Chch City) for Parliament v Tancred. Next day he announced he would withdraw. He changed his mind and again stood and won the contest 384 - 300. This may have been a trick to put voters for Tancred off their guard. He bought W G Brittan's property Englefield, subdivided it and built houses on the sections and even arranged finance. Haast bough one of them which he christened Gluckauf which with 1 1/2 arcres of land cost him 1500 pounds. He presented his rocks and fossils from the Chathams to the Museum. He wrote a paper "The Bird as the Labourer of Man" and pointed out that the clouds of moths and insects which were preying on the crops were waiting for small birds to keep them in check. He fell foul of a singer of comic songs called Thatcher who wherever he played, composed the words full of local bits. Travers appeared in one of the Thatcher songs and foolishly took offence and wrote angry letters to the papers. This was right into Thatcher's hands and instead of a line in a song, he got a whole song to himself. The subject was a lawsuit in which Travers' gardener Chudley sued Travers for damages for assault. Travers to the paper: "I cannot and if I could, would not trouble myself to prevent trowelling mountebanks from making me the subject of their effusions for the public amusement. I heard it and laughed as much as my neighbours." He was one of the few people in Chch who had a grand piano. In May 1867 he was returned unopposed to the Provincial Council for Heathcote. The Lyttelton Times said "When Mr Travers left science and superintendents alone, he always appeared to great advantage. His ability, experience and breadth of view helped to elevate the tone of every debate and to carry through several useful measures or amendments." He still remained a member for Christchurch after he had left to make his house in Wellington but he took offence at some sharp criticism in the Lyttelton Times and resigned on 1 Aug 1870. In 1877 he was elected to represent Wellington in Parliament. He had then represented each of the 3 cities in which he had lived. He cooperated with Ludlam, Mantell and Hector in getting the Wellington Botanical Gardens set aside as a reserve. He read many papers on botany and ornithology before the Wellington Philosophical Soc. and also on geology and Maori lore. He was a founder of the NZ Institute and was gazetted a governor in Jan 187, and helped to draft the measures under which it was established. His addresses as President and Vice Presicent wer thoughtful and well worth listening to. When Wellington College was disaffiliated from NZ Universities he resigned from the Board of Governors because he believed the endowments should be done away with. He published on his travels through America to England and in 1872 'The Storming Times of Te Rauparaha': also the letterpiece of Barnards Album of NZ Views. He contributed papers to the Natural History Review and to the Transactions of the Ethnological Soc. He was also a shareholder of the Wellington Gas Co., a director of Wellington Tramways and a promoter of the Manawatu Railway. He and his wife, son and daughter arrived in Lyttelton from Sydney on the 'Lord Woolsey' 30 April 1861. He was a keen volunteer on Wellington and Canterbury and was a Captain of Chch No 2 Coy of Volunteers in March 1862. He held a commission for 40 years. in the NZ Militia. For services to the Govt. of France he received the Garland Cross of the Order of Cambodia. He was French Consul in Chch.

He was offered and declined the Attorney-Generalship when Sir James Prendergast became Chief Justice in 1875. He kept up his tremendous vigour to the end of his life, particularly in his garden. He died as a relult of an accident on the railways. He got off in a hurry - lost his leg - and died as a result 26 March 1903.

Married (1) Miss Oldham (d. 1888). Note Travers was a partner woth Oldham, brewer in the Reliance Brewery on the Ferry Road. Married (2) Theodosia, daughter of W de R Barclay Son Henry His Wellington law firm was Travers, Russell, Campbell & Peacock.

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Sarah TRIMMER

• BIRTH: CIR 1842
• DEATH: AFT 1911

• MARRIAGE: CIR 1905, Tologa Bay

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Rosa TRIPP

• DEATH: Marble Pt Waiau

1. Jennifer BOYLE

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Anne TROY

• MARRIAGE: 25 APR 1811

1. Julius (Lt. Col.) Brockman TRAVERS

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Elizabeth VAUGHAN

• BIRTH: 13 FEB 1677, Sellack

• MARRIAGE: 15 OCT 1700, All Saints, Hereford, England

1. Mary JONES
2. Elizabeth JONES
3. Hannah JONES
4. Robert JONES
5. Richard JONES
6. Philip JONES
7. Thomas JONES
8. Mary JONES
9. Jane JONES

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Mary VAUGHAN

• BIRTH: CIR 1672
• DEATH: JUL 1713

• MARRIAGE: CIR 1689

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Mary VAUGHAN

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