Travell Genealogy

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Our Travell Genealogy

by Virginia P. Street as posted here.

NOTES FROM MY TRAVELL FILE:

My mother, Janet Graham (Bobby) Travell was born on December 17, 1901 in New York City, New York, the daughter of John Willard Travell, M.D., known as Willard, of Troy, and Janet Eliza Davidson of Albany, New York. My mother married John W. G. (Jack) Powell of Roxobel, Bertie County, North Carolina, on June 6, 1929 in New York City. Jack was born on December 26, 1897. He was the son of Edgar Powell of Roxobel and Isa Cornelia Gordon of Hertford, North Carolina.

Janet G. Travell had one sibling, Virginia MacQueen (Ginie) Travell. Ginie was born on April 24, 1900 in New York City. She married Harold Eastman (Pop) Weeks of Greenville, New Jersey, in 1925. Pop was born on September 19, 1885. Both Janet Travell and Virginia Travell became physicians. Virginia practiced under the name Virginia Weeks.

Janet and Virginia Travell's father, (John) Willard Travell, was born in Troy, New York, abt 1880. He died in New Rochelle, New York, at a nursing home on August 14, 1961. He had a second marriage in 1930 to Edith Talcott Bates of New York City and Westfield, New Jersey. (I have another file of my mother's three step-siblings, Talcott Bates, Peggy Bates (she married Husband), and Clark Travell).

My grandfather, (John) Willard Travell, M.D. was the son of Ira Rose Travell, who was born in Gilboa, New York, September 21, 1836. He married Elvira Amelia Pierce. Ira Rose Travell and Elvira Amelia Pierce had five children, a daughter, Jesse or Jessie, who only lived to be four years old, and four sons: C. (Charles) Howard, I. (Ira) Winthrop, (John} Willard, and Warren (Bertram).

Three of the Travell brothers were at Williams College in Massachusetts at the same time. C. Howard was graduated in 1889, I. Winthrop in 1890, and (John) Willard in 1891. Warren graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in 1894.

Howard and Willard Travell went on to study medicine and both practiced in New York City. Winthrop became a teacher and later was the Superintendent of Schools in Ridgewood, New Jersey. A school was dedicated to him - the Ira W. Travell School - in Ridgewood in 1951. He died on June 2, 1946. Warren Travell held a civil engineering degree and worked for Thomas A. Edison in his patent laboratory in Orange, New Jersey. He was an inventor in his own right and held many patents for the design of cranes, hoists, and aircraft. As an engineering consultant, he assisted in the calculation of the stresses and stains on the Holland Tunnel which was built under the Hudson River. He moved to San Bernardino, California. He and his brother, Winthrop Travell, married sisters. He married Minnie Cornelia Ansley, the daughter of Cornelia Atwater and Marcus Ansley of Geneva, New York. Winthrop married (Margaret) Belle Ansley (born September 24, 1870) on August 22, 1894.

The wife of Ira Rose Travell, Elvira Amelia Pierce, was born on July 26, 1834 in Troy. She and Ira were married on August 8, 1859. In 1853, she graduated from the Troy Female Seminary, renamed the Emma Willard School. She taught school and served as the principal of the Female Seminary in Poultney, Vermont, before her marriage.

Ira Rose Travell's great grandfather was Circuit Travell whose mother was Martha Circuit. Circuit was born in 1776 in England at Eaton Bray, Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He married Judith Purcell from the same region. In about 1799, Circuit and Judey came to America by ship. Their only child, John Travell, was born in Albany, New York, in 1803. Circuit worked as a gardner on the property of John Lansing, Jr., Chancellor of the State of New York. Later, he bought his own farm from him.

John Travell inherited his father's farm and married Celecta Rose in 1824. Their third son was my grandfather, Willard Travell's father, Ira Rose Travell.

Circuit, Judith, John, and Celecta are buried at a cemetery in Gilboa, according to the Schoharie County NY GenWeb SIte. Their graves had to be relocated from the old to the new cemetery in the 1920s when a lake was built by the town.

(Some of these notes are from my mother's autobiography, Office Hours: Day and Night (1968) by Janet Travell, M.D.).


The father of Howard, Winthrop, Willard and Warren Travell, Ira Rose Travell, was the owner of a steam laundry business in Troy, according to family records. The 1880 Resselaer County Federal Census lists him as a collar manufacturer. He died May 10, 1866. Before he died, he moved to a farm called Elm Hill in Johnsonville, about fifteen miles north east of Troy.


Travell family tree

In England:

John Travell and Elizabeth Unknown had a son, Samuell Travell, who was christened Aug. 20, 1797.
Samuel Travell m. Martha Circuit Nov. 8, 1770. Their son was Circuit Travell b. 1773/1774, d. Dec. 15, 1841. Circuit Travell m. Judith Pursell Aug. 24, 1799. (Judith,1776 - April 11,1846, was the daughter of William Pursell and Martha Hows).

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In America:

 1) Circuit and Judith Travell came to America in 1799. Their children were:
    2) John Travell b. 1803 in Colonie, Albany Co., NY - d. May 27,1862 in Schoharie Co., NY.
        + Celecta Rose b. April 2, 1806 in Gilboa, NY - d. July 4, 1877 in Gilboa, NY.
            3) Julian Travell (female) b. 1825, d. 1856.
            3) Revillo Travell b. Jan. 1826 - d. 1911 in Schoharie Co., NY.
                + Adezia/Adaliza Gray/Grey (daughter of Solomon Gray/Grey and Susan Hoagland).
                     4) Ella M. Travell b. 10 Oct. 1852   (married       Clark?).
                     4) Marian/Miriam E. Travell b. 5 Aug. 1854.
                     4) Sarah E. Travell b. 1856.
                + Lucy Crooker b. May 1828, d. 1910.
                     4) Alice K. Travell b. 1858.
                     4) Effie Elvira Travell b. May 30, 1863, d. July 9, 1898.
                     4) John Travell b. 1866.
                     4) George Cecil Travell b. 1871.
                         + Emma Day b. March 1, 1862, d. Oct. 8, 1934.
                               5) Cecil H. Travell b. Jan. 17, 1900, d. June 1979.
                                    + Laura Place b. Feb. 4, 1907, d. July 20, 1968.
                                          6) Laura.
                                                + Howard LaFever b. 1925, d. 1983.  
                                          6) Nora.
                                          6) Charles K.
                                          6) Effie.
                                          6) Jean.
                                          6) Cecil, Jr. b. March 4, 1926, d. Nov. 9, 1992.
                                          6) Sarah. ?
                                          6) Howard W.
                                          6) Ivan Douglas b. Sept. 19, 1930, d. Jan. 8, 1955.
                                          6) John W.
                      4) Julia, and two others who died young.
            3) Elizabeth Travell  b. abt. 1828.
                + J. Savan Page, Jr.
                     4) J. Savan Page b. 1863.
                     4) Frances Page b. 1866.
                     4) Lydia Page b. 1868.
            3) William Travell b. 1829.
                + Julia A. b. 1827, d. June 1859.
                    4) Ira John Travell b. Nov. 14, 1856 in Cairo, Green Co., NY, d. 1933, last address 779 2nd Ave., Troy, NY. Christened Jan. 14, 1860 at the Reformed Dutch Church, Gilboa, NY. After his mother died, Ira John was raised by his Grandmother, Celecta Rose Travell.
                         + Fannie Warren Welch b. abt. 1874 in England, d. 1924 (parents - John and Sarah Butler Welch - lived in England - other children were: William b. abt. 1852, Harry Bloomfield Welch b. Dec. 2, 1855 in Troy, NY, Edward and Sarah Gertrude she married       Packard).
                              5) Grace Elliott Travell b. 1875, d. 1949.
                                     + William Sutton Greer b. 1873, d. 1916.
                                           6) Howard Travell Greer b. 1901, d. 1971.
                                                  7) Nancy Travell Greer b. 1934, d. 1988
                                                      + James Max Hall (children Samuel and Stuart).
                                           6) Dorothy Sutton Greer, b. 1907, d. 1983.
                               5) Roy - died young.
                               5) Lawrence - died young.
                               5) Gertrude Emma Travell, "Gertie," b. 1877, d. 1989. 
                               5) Marion Celecta Travell b. 1887, d. abt. 1980.
                                      + John H. Spencer.
                                           6) Herbert Travell Spencer.
                                           6) Muriel Jean Spencer.
                                                 +           Schroeder.
                         + Cornelia E. Taylor b. 1834 (daughter of David W. Taylor).
                                5) Eugene Travell b. 1868
                                       + Catherine (Kate) Stewart b. 1878, d. 1954    
                                              6) Mathew b. 1904.
                                              6) Gaston b, 1906.
                                              6) Walter b. 1906.   
                3) Keys or Reys Travell b. abt. 1835. (Children or in-law Elsie and Harvey; another girl...?)
                3) Ira Rose Travell b. Sept. 21, 1836 in Gilboa, NY, d. 1904 in Plainfield, NJ.
                    + Elvira Amelia Pierce b. July 26, 1834, d. Sept. 8, 1803 in Johnsonville, NY.
                            4) Jesse or Jessie, a girl - died young.
                            4) Charles Howard Travell, M.D. b. 1865, d. 1933.
                                + Anna Greene b. 1873 (daughter of Nathaniel Greene - a Revolutionary war General).
                                       5) Winifred Travell b. 1904, d. 1928.
                                            + Edward N. (Ned) Gadsby. After Winifred's death, Ned married Isabelle Unknown. They had Edward (Sandy), Jr. and Susan Gadsby.
                           4) Ira Winthrop Travell b. Jan. 17, 1868, d. 1946.
                               + Margaret Belle Ansley b. Sept. 24, 1870.
                                      5) Ralph Winthrop Travell b. 1895, d. 1896.
                                      5) Margaret Helen Travell (m. Robert Henry Bennett b. 1899).
                                      5) Winthrop Atwater (Bub) Travell (m. Mildred Unknown). Children: Joanne and John.
                           4) John Willard Travell, M.D. b. Nov. 5, 1870, d. Aug. 1961.
                               + Janet Eliza Davidson of Albany, NY, (first marriage) b. Dec. 29, 1870, d. Oct. 26, 1928.
                                      5) Virginia Macqueen Travell, M.D. b. April 24, 1900 in New York City, d. Feb. 13, 1981 in Hawaii.
                                         + Harold Eastman Weeks b. Aug. 23, 1885, d. June 30, 1960. 
                                              6) Virginia D. Weeks, M.D.
                                              6) Willard T. Weeks, M.D.
                                              6) Sheldon G. Weeks, PhD
                                              6) Elinor E. Weeks, M.D.
                                       5) Janet Graham Travell, M.D. b. Dec. 17, 1901 in New York City, d. Aug. 1, 1997 in Northampton, MA 
                                          + John W. G. (Jack) Powell b. Dec. 26, 1897 in Roxobel, Bertie County, NC, d. July 10, 1973 in Washington, DC.
                                              6) Janet Davidson Powell
                                              6) Virginia Gordon Powell.
                                        (Second marriage to Edith Talcott Bates 1930, Kingston, NY)
                             4) Warren Bertram Travell b. July 20, 1872, d. Nov. 14, 1951.
                                   + Minnie Cornelia Ansley b. May 27, 1873, d. July 25, 1959.
                                          5) Arthur Warren Travell b. March 12, 1899, d. Oct. 20, 1918 of influenza (at Cornell).
             3) Asa Travell b. 1850, d. 1852.
  2) Jane Travell b. 1809, d. April 9, 1881.
      + William Richtmyer b. 1805, d. 1873.
              3) Circuit Richtmyer b. May 13, 1828, d. 1852.
              3) Rachel Richtmyer b. Nov. 17, 1829, d. 1856.
              3) Adaline Richtmyer b. Sept. 3, 1835, d. 1916.
              3) Mary Richtmyer b. April 20, 1840.
  2) Mary Travell b. 1808
      + Ira Barnes Rose b. June 1, 1803.
  2) Elizabeth Travell b. 1814.
       + Ozias Helms b. 1813, d. 1855.


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1880 Rensselaer County Federal Census

Surname First Name Age Relationship Occupation Born Father Mother Ward Address Page

Travell Ira R 48 Head Collar Mfgr. New York New York New York 4 Twelfth Street 150b
Travell Elvira A 43 Wife Keeping House New York New York New York 4 Twelfth Street 150b
Travell C Howard 15 Son At School New York New York New York 4 Twelfth Street 150b
Travell Ira Winthrop 13 Son At School New York New York New York 4 Twelfth Street 150b
Travell John Willard 10 Son At School New York New York New York 4 Twelfth Street 150b
Travell Warren B 9 Son At School New York New York New York 4 Twelfth Street 150b

NOTE: The 'Born', 'Father', and 'Mother' columns give the state in which the respective person was born.

  	Ira R. Travell 	        M 	48
Spouse 	Elvira A. Travell 	F 	43
Child 	C. Howard Travell 	M 	15
Child 	I. Winthrop Travell 	M 	13
Child 	J. Willard Travell 	M 	10
Child 	Warren L. Travell 	M 	9

The Travells

Janet Graham (Bobby) Travell was born on December 17, 1901 in New York City, New York, the daughter of John Willard Travell, M.D., known as Will, of Troy, and Janet Eliza Davidson of Albany, New York.

Janet Travell married John W. G. (Jack) Powell of Roxobel, Bertie County, North Carolina, on June 6, 1929 in New York City. Jack Powell was born on December 26, 1897. He was the son of Edgar Powell of Roxobel and Isa Cornelia Gordon of Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina.

Janet G. Travell had one sibling, Virginia Macqueen (Ginny) Travell, who was born on April 24, 1900 in New York City and died Feb. 13, 1981 in Hawaii. She married Harold Eastman (Pop) Weeks of Greenville, New Jersey, in 1925. Pop was born on Aug, 23, 1885 and died June 30, 1960. Both Janet Travell and Virginia Travell became physicians. Virginia practiced under the name Virginia Weeks, M.D.

Janet G. Travell and Virginia M. Travell's father, John Willard Travell, (later just Willard Travell - he dropped the John), was born in Troy, New York, abt 1879. He died at a nursing home in New Rochelle, New York, on August 14, 1961. His second marriage in 1930 was to Edith Talcott Bates, of New York City and Westfield, New Jersey, the widow of the Reverand H. Roswell Bates. Her children were Charlotte, who died young, Talcott, and Peggy. He and Edith adopted seven-year-old Clark Travell. Talcott Bates married Peggy Pardue and Peggy Bates married Thomas Husband.

Willard Travell, M.D. was the son of Ira Rose Travell, who was born in Gilboa, New York, September 21, 1836. He married Elvira Amelia Pierce. Ira Rose Travell and Elvira Amelia Pierce had five children, a daughter, Jessie, who only lived to be four years old, and four sons, C. (Charles) Howard Travell, I. (Ira) Winthrop Travell, (John) Willard Travell, and Warren Bertram Travell.

Three of the Travell brothers were at Williams College in Massachusetts at the same time. C. Howard was graduated there in 1889, I. Winthrop in 1890, and (John) Willard in 1891. Warren attended Williams College but graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in 1894.

Howard and Willard Travell went on to study medicine and both practiced in New York City. Winthrop became a teacher and later was the Superintendent of Schools in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The Ira W. Travell School in Ridgewood was dedicated to him in 1951. He died on June 2, 1946.

Warren Travell held a civil engineering degree and worked for Thomas A. Edison in his patent laboratory in Orange, New Jersey. He was an inventor in his own right and held many patents for the design of cranes, hoists, and aircraft. As an engineering consultant, he assisted in the calculation of the stresses and stains on the Holland Tunnel which was built under the Hudson River. He moved to San Bernardino, California. He and his brother, Winthrop Travell, married sisters. He married Minnie Cornelia Ansley, the daughter of Cornelia Atwater and Marcus Ansley of Geneva, New York. Winthrop married (Margaret) Belle Ansley (born September 24, 1870) on August 22, 1894.

The wife of Ira Rose Travell, Elvira Amelia Pierce, was born on July 26, 1834 in Troy. She was the daughter of Hiram Dwight Pierce and Sarah Jane Wiswall. She and Ira were married on August 8, 1859. In 1853, she graduated from the Troy Female Seminary, renamed the Emma Willard School. She taught school and served as the principal of the Female Seminary in Poultney, Vermont, before her marriage.

The great grandfather of Ira Rose Travell was Circuit Travell whose mother was Martha Circuit. Circuit Travell was born in 1776 in England at Eaton Bray, Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He married Judith Purcell from the same region. In about 1799, Circuit and Judey came to America by ship. Their child, John Travell, was born in Albany, New York, in 1803. Circuit worked as a gardner on the property of John Lansing, Jr., Chancellor of the State of New York. Later, he bought his own farm from him.

John Travell inherited his father's farm and married Celecta Rose in 1824. Their third son was John Willard Travell's father, Ira Rose Travell.

Ira Rose Travell moved to Troy where he started as a clerk in the Burden Iron Works store. Later he opened the first steam laundry in Troy and became a successful shirt and collar manufacturer there. When his health deteriorated, he retired to Elm Hill in Johnsonville where he and his wife died in the winter of 1903/1904.

Circuit, Judith, John, and Celecta are buried at a cemetery in Gilboa, according to the Schoharie County NY GenWeb Site. Their graves had to be relocated from the old to the new cemetery in the 1920s when a lake was built by the town.

Some of these notes are from Office Hours: Day and Night.