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Traversa is typical of the Ligurian area, Piedmontese, with a stump also in the Neapolitan and one in Puglias, especially in the Bari, Traversi is diffused in macchia di leopard in all Italy, could have at least four strains, in Milanese, in the Florentine, in Rome and in the Foggiano, The derivations of these surnames are of course manifold, as by nicknames or by Toponyms as Cross (FI), or by the medieval name Traversus (see TRAVERSE). Examples of remote cognization of the name Traverso are for example in 1600 with Giovanni Andrea Traversus, Captain of Valle, in Valtellina. Ntegrations provided by Pietro Giovanni Traversa Studio the surname Traversa di Bari and Provincia. Going backwards I realized that Andrea Traversa, my direct ancestor, married with that name and surname in 1707, in 1685 was born as Andrea D'aversa. His father Martino, born in 1652, is always d'aversa, as well as his grandfather Andrea married in 1649. I have deepened and I think I understood that towards the beginning of 1600 there were already some cross in Bari (not many, perhaps descendants of the cross arrived in the city, from the north, in the period of Bona Sforza), in those years came a d'aversa and soon within two generations the C Everyome was transformed by the scribes into a cross. Today in Bari the surname Traversa is very widespread, while there are d'aversa, but not everyone knows that the cross that originated from D'aversa in Bari are really many, I verified, having built a huge family tree of the cross.
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