Biographical notes:
Artist, violinist, comedian, dramatist, author of melodramas, acted & wrote as William Travers. The name Travers does not appear on the baptism record & was probably adopted later in life.
Addresses: At birth (1824) - 12 Chiswell St, Finsbury; Father's address - 8 Old Quebec St, (Paddington); 1841 census - Great Church Lane, Hammersmith, Middlesex (occup: school assistant); At first marriage (1849) - Gough Street, Birmingham (occup: artist); 1851 census - Stone Street, Bradford (occup: comedian); At death of daughter Eleanor(1852) - 25 New Millman St, St Pancras; At birth of son William (1854) - 44 Chiswell St, Finsbury; At birth of son Edmund (1855) - 77 Chiswell St, Finsbury; At death of first wife (1859) - 9 Wilton Square (Canonbury); At birth of daughter Eleanor Sarah (1860) - 26 Prospect Row, Balls Pond Rd; At second marriage (1863) - 19 Arlinton Street, London (occup: artist); At 1871 census - Hertford Rd, De Beauvoir Square, St John At Hackney (occup: author & journalist; At time of death (1880) - 103 Milton Rd, Stoke Newington.
Reference documents:
1824 baptism record.
1841 census return (Thomas Heath).
1849 marriage certificate transcript (to Helena Maguire).
1851 census return (William Travers).
ca 1860 - photograph.
1863 marriage certificate (to Sarah Wood).
1871 census return (William Travers).
1880 death certificate transcript.
Published information about William Travers.