Birth: 1725 Midhurst, Sussex, UK
Father: Ralef (Ralph) Croucher About 1691
Mother: Anne Aslett About 1695
Christening: 17 April 1725 Midhurst, Sussex, UK
Marriage: Unknown
Wife:
Death: About 1804 Midhurst, Sussex, Uk
Christening in IGI.
The following entries from Access to Archives shows that he and his widowed mother were both alive in November 1755 when they were leased land, he lived in Bepton [3 miles south west of Midhurst] around 1775 and that he died about 1804 in Woolbeding (2 miles north west of Midhurst).
West Sussex Council Council Property Deeds: Catalogue Ref. Add Mss 6080 - 6371
Deeds of four cottages in The Mint, Bepton Road, Midhurst
Lease for 1000 years at a peppercorn rent. Consideration 5s - ref. Add Mss 6255 - date: 13 Nov. 1755
Anthony, 6th Viscount Montague and his son and heir Anthony Browne, to Ann Croucher, widow, and her youngest son, Christopher Croucher, mason, both of Midhurst.
Documents mostly relating to Midhurst and the Fisher family of Hill Top, nr. Midhurst
"Extracts from the late Mrs. Dawtrey's leases to her several tenants" Anne Dawtrey - ref. Add Mss 14,724 - date: n.d
1 September 1775. 21 year lease to Christopher Croucher of Bepton, mason, at £12 p.a
Documents relating mostly to the property of the Dawtrey and Gittins families, and letters and photographs of the Allin family of Midhurst
Lease and Release to declare the uses of a recovery, between (a) Margaret Gittins, (b) Henry Chalcraft of Palsgrave Place, Strand, Mx., gent. (c) William Newman of Midhurst, gent - ref. Add Mss 15,168,9 - date: 10/11 March 1780
Manor of West Preston; tenement, 3 barns, dove house, gaterooms, gardens, orchards, and 84a. land in West Preston, called Bunns Farm and Clements, late in occupation of William Trower, now George Jupp, heretofore the estate of William Alderton, junr., decd; tenement, barn, etc. in Boxgrove, 52½a. land in the common fields of Strettington, and common of pasture for 20 sheep; barn (formerly a tenement), orchard etc. and 8a. land in the common fields of Strettington; third part of 4a. land in the common fields of Westerton, of barn and gateroom in Westerton in Westhampnett, of 7a. land called Spooners in the common fields of Strettington, of 11a. land in the common fields of Westerton and Strettington, of barn and gateroom in Westerton, all now or late in occupation of Elizabeth Wares, widow newly erected barn, with gateroom, land and part of a fishpond adjoining called North Lands (in all 15a.) in Woolbeding, late in occupation of Richard Pearson and now of Christopher Croucher; dwellinghouse with the large chamber lately taken from the adjoining messuage in Midhurst, heretofore in the possession of Francis Whitcombe, but now of (a), with a right of way; 2a. land in Woolavington late in occupation of Thomas Allen and [blank], now of Ann Coleman; 1a. land in Petworth, planted with hops, having Frog Stile on the West, and in the occupation of Richard Dawtrey; 2a. in Byworth mead in Petworth, late in occupation of John and Robert Dawtrey and now of [blank]. All which manor, messuages, lands, tenements and premises were late the inheritance of Ann Dawtrey of Midhurst, spinster, decd
The Cowdray Archives from the Browne family of Cowdray Park, Viscounts Montague
Documents previously known as the Montague Papers
Lease for 21 years from the following Michaelmas at annual rent of £12. Anthony, [7th] Viscount Montague to Christopher Croucher of Bepton, yeo. - ref. COWDRAY/43 - date: 5 Mar 1781
Tile Deeds and copies of wills and letters of administration labelled as 'Box 3 Bundle 34'. - ref. COWDRAY/1150-1157 - date: 1632-c 1870
These copies were made (watermarks, and dates on nos. 1155, 1157), possibly in connection with the title to the above property which was held by members of the Whitter family, who were connected by marriage (see, e.g., no. 1156) with the Croucher family. - ref.
COWDRAY/1154-1157 - date: c 1870
COWDRAY/1156 Letters of administration of the goods of Christopher Croucher of Bapton Kilns in Woolbeding 1804.
There is an entry in Ancestry for the will of Christopher Croucher of Midhurst 1769 from the Calendar of Wills in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Chichester, 1482-1800, Register 3, now preserved in the Probate Registry at Chichester.
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