The Travers Family
The Travers FamilyUpdated June 5, 2011 | Stephen Joseph Travers 1000B Thornbury Lane Manchester,NJ 08759 A-United States 732 657 1178 [email protected] |
This web site is dedicated to the memory of my parents, Patrick and Mary Anne (nee Higgins) Travers, both natives of Drumkeeran,County Leitrim, Ireland. Like so many of their generation, they bade farewell to their parents, friends and relations and embarked for a new life in America. They worked hard, maintained their Irishness and their faith, raised four children and lived to enjoy the arrival of their grandchildren. My siblings and I are the first of the family line to be born outside of Ireland. Perhaps this explains my interest and love of all things Irish, including tracing and documenting the family tree. As I write this with Lorraine, on a cold and wintry evening, January 12, 2001, we reflect on our heritage including our 6 grandchildren (one more on the way). To my parents and to all our extended genealogical family, now encompassing three centuries and nearly 300 known individuals, we offer our thanks, our love and our prayers. The following poem, "Ancestors Song Doobally", was written by my cousin, Eileen McGovern, and was featured in The Leitrim Guardian 1999. It ultimately led to the re-connect of the family in the USA, England and Ireland. Eileen's parents were both from Doobally, County Cavan. What beauty unseen about, that shines day in, day out, a church upon the hill, made by man's goodwill. Who now can take this in, all past, the suffering, before I trod this land, when life was poor, not grand. It shaped the things to come, the roots, the toil in sun, the labour, laying stones, that now are dust and bones. That I may kneel and pray, they toiled with stone, with clay, and built upon the land, a chapel of their own hand. A warmth came from their hearts, to build and thus impart, a sense of family, a spire for all to see. Now I must carry on, their toil though all long gone, and sing from in my heart, the song that they did start. So listen, hear, and see, for they gave life to me, forefathers dead, long gone, forever will live on. | |
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