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Greetings,
Here's information on your name "Travis the Carver."
We found no evidence of "Travis" as a given name in period. Our research shows that it was originally a surname which was adopted as a given name after our period. There are a number of English names (Percy, Stanley, Seymour, and Neville, to name a few) which were turned into given names in this way.
"Carver" is a common surname. It was originally a descriptive name, and we find "Gerard le Carver" in 1209 (1).
If you're interested in a person from 1300-1400, the best form of the surname to use would be "le Carver." In written English records, "le" is used for "the" in names in an overwhelming majority of cases, although people in daily life may have used "the" instead. If you're interested in a persona from 1450-1600, "Carver" would be the commonly found form.
We would be happy to help you find a given name that was used in period in England. If you're interested in getting examples of English names, the best source is "The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names," by EG Withycombe. Withycombe dates most of the names in her book, so you will usually be able to tell whether a name is period or not.
In service,
Alan Fairfax
Academy of St. Gabriel
(1) Reaney, P.H., A Dictionary of British Surnames, 2nd ed., Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976.