Have you tried wills? There are lots of TRAVIS wills available. See Lancashire Will Search here - http://user.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm. Example - there is a will for John TRAVIS of Cheetham in 1590. And quite a few later wills for TRAVISes of Blackley. If you have known male line descendents from both branches then a Y-DNA comparison would be something to try. There is at least one TRAVIS project already underway. See http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Travis. But you should search further to see what else is out there. Best wishes, Irene

Hello Irene Thank you for your reply . I have a number of wills from this period. One of them is the George Travis who died 1584. He mentions his son & heir George but no Thomas. None of the other wills I have obtained so far give me a definite link between the two Travis lines yet. I wonder if George jnr and Thomas are cousins. This is my hunch unless I can prove otherwise. I had not thought of DNA testing but I will have a look at the website. I am hoping that more documents from this earlier period become available. I am thinking that Manchester Family History Group should be next place to enquire. regards Julie On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Irene Marlborough <imarlb@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > Have you tried wills? There are lots of TRAVIS wills available. See > Lancashire Will Search here - http://user.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm. > Example - there is a will for John TRAVIS of Cheetham in 1590. And quite a > few later wills for TRAVISes of Blackley. > > If you have known male line descendents from both branches then a Y-DNA > comparison would be something to try. There is at least one TRAVIS project > already underway. See > http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Travis. But you should > search further to see what else is out there. > > Best wishes, Irene > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. > > Please SNIP when replying. > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >