Definition/Meaning of Travers

• English - Proper noun: Travers A surname originating as an occupation. A place name : A hamlet , virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County , Alberta , Canada , named after a railway surveyor. An unincorporated community in Barry County , Missouri , United States , named after legislator O. H. Traverse. A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland .
• English - References: Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Dictionary of Surnames . Oxford University Press 1988.
• English - Etymology: From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair .