Thomas Travers, of Nateby & Tulketh

This Thomas Travers, of Nateby and Tulketh, was Coroner for Furness about 1292. He was Knight of the Shire for Lancashire in 1200.

[Broderbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0082, Date of Import: 31 Dec 1998]

Thomas Travers of Nateby and Tulketh Castle came of age before the 56th year of Henry II (1272). He was Coroner for Furness about 1292. He was Knight of the Shire for Lancashire in the 29th year of Edward I (about 1300). He was High Sheriff of Lancashire in the 30th to 33rd years of Edward I (1301-1303). He was Colector of Scutages for County Lancashire during the 8th year of Edward II (1314), and was in the Commission for the Peace for Lancashire in 1320. He was also keeper of the Forests of Lancaster and Amounderness. He married as his first wife, Isabel Nateby, daughter of Sir William Nateby, a Knight, and there after the family quartered the Nateby Arms. Isabel died in 1290, and Thomas married Cilia, widow of Roger de Hokoneschawe. Thomas died before 1 August 1334.

Source: THE TRAVIS (TRAVERS) FAMILY, by Major Gen. Robert J. Travis.

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Thomas Travers, of Nateby, in Garstang, High Sheriff of Lancashire 1301-2. Coroner for Furness 1292. Died circa 1334.

He married Isabel, daughter snd fceireas of WUliam Nateby, of Nateby, with whom he obtained that estate which continued the seat of his_desoendants until the seventeenth century.

Origins

[Broderbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0082, Date of Import: 31 Dec 1998]

Laurence Travers, of Nateby and Tulketh Castle, Preston, Lancashire Co. (now Lancaster Co.) England on June 24, 1287 was serving as Warden of the Hospital of B.M. Magd. at Preston, and also as a juror on the inquisition port-mortem of Adam de Preston. He married the daughter of Orme de Kellet. They had two sons, Laurence and Thomas. The elder son, Laurence, in the 21st year of Edward I, (about 1296) deeded to his younger brother, Thomas, all his land and title, and entered a monastery thus leaving Thomas as heir upon their father's death.

Source: THE TRAVIS (TRAVERS) FAMILY by Major General Robert J. Travis.

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nateby-1
• Pink, William Duncombe. The Parliamentary Representation of Lancashire (Henry Gray, London, 1889) Page 12-13 < Archive.Org >
• “Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica”. Page 360. < Archive.Org >
• https://steveeskew.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I13414&tree=tree1
• 'Townships: Nateby', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1912), pp. 308-311. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol7/pp308-311 [accessed 20 July 2022]. The oxgang named appears to have been in Great Nateby. The owners adopted the local surname, and in 1292 William son of Ralph de Nateby sold his estate to Lawrence son of Lawrence Travers. (fn. 5) This was afterwards transferred by Lawrence to his brother Thomas.