Clement Crowcher (Croucher)


Dates

Birth: 1698 East Dean, West Sussex, UK
Father: John Croucher (Crovcher, Crowcher) 1665-a1725
Mother: Elizabeth Hull 1672-1703/15

Christening: 27 April 1698 East Dean, West Sussex, UK

Marriage: 27 May 1727
Wife: Elizabeth Micklam About 1706

Death: 13 May 1734 East Dean, West Sussex, UK
Buried: East Dean, West Sussex, UK

Children

Clement Crowcher 1728-1771

Notes

There is an extracted entry in the IGI for his christening and a submitted one for about 1702 in Eastdeane (sic).

His father married Margaret White in 1715 and the family moved to Pagham.

There are two submitted entries for the marriage in the IGI at Eastdeane (sic) on 27th May and one at Westhampnett on the 30th May.

The following entries are from the Goodwood Estate Archives By courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, and with acknowledgments to the West Sussex County Record Office and the County Archivist:
SINGLETON AND CHARLTON FILE - Demise for 1000 years at an annual rent of 1s. 6d. - ref. GOODWOOD/E3687, 3688 - date: 18 June 1714 With assignment, 30 Aug. 1718, to John Halsey of Chichester, gent. and Clement Croucher of East Dean, yeoman, by John Glover on his intended marriage with Mary Croucher, spinster, sister of the said Clement.
TITLE DEEDS EAST DEAN FILE - Deeds of tenement, garden, orchard and 3 yardlands in East Dean, late in occ. of Clement Croucher and purchased by his grandfather, John, from John Hale. - ref. GOODWOOD/E2000-2022 - date: 1706-1793. The deeds recited in abstracts of title (nos. E2019 and 2020, the former endorsed with counsel's opinion, 1791, and the latter endorsed with counsel's opinions, 1809, 1810) are present except for an indenture, 27 Jan. 1735, and the will, 25 Sept. 1771, of Clement Croucher. No. GOODWOOD/E2005 is the probate, 3 July 1734, of the will, 25 Sept. 1733, with codicils, of Clement Croucher of East Dean, yeoman, Nos. E2016-2018 are receipts, 1791, of John Croucher for the purchase money of (i) barn and yardland called Bacons, Overlong Field (7a.), West Field, Lodge Field, 24a. customary land and common of pasture for 60 sheep and 15 hogs; (ii) cotland called Aylings and a cottage in East Dean; (iii) for interest on £1100. FILE - Deeds of tenement or farm and lands in East Dean (no details) in occ. of Clement Croucher at an annual rent of £120, formerly in occ. of John Micklam and sometime of Richard Glover. - ref. GOODWOOD/E2023-2029 - date: 1730-1733. Farm in East Dean in occ. of Clement Croucher.

The following entry from Access to Archives implies his mother's maiden name was Vaughan not Micklam, but I cannot resolve this. TITLE DEEDS, SETTLEMENTS, WILLS AND MANORIAL DOCUMENTS SUSSEX: SERIES I WASHINGTON Various properties FILE - Deeds - ref. WISTON/3147-3154 - date: 1750-1788 Elizabeth Croucher (née Vaughan) of Eastdean, widow, by her will, 29 Jan. 1749/50, devised all her estate to Clement Croucher of Eastdean, yeo., her only son (no. WISTON/3147), who conveyed the above property, 2, 3 Oct. 1764, to William Pannat of Thakeham, carpenter (nos. WISTON/3148, WISTON/3149). The latter, having mortgaged the property (with bond), 28 July 1787, to James Hunt of Kirdford, farmer (nos. WISTON/3150, WISTON/3151), conveyed it, 9, 10 Oct. 1788, in consideration of £60 to himself and £120 to his mortgagee, to Charles Goring of Wiston, esq. (nos. WISTON/3152, WISTON/3153) and the residue of the mortgage term was assigned to Thomas Dennett of Storrington, surgeon, in trust to attend the inheritance (no. WISTON/3154).

Ancestry has the following entry:
Sussex: Chichester - Calendar of Wills in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Chichester, 1482-1800 Register 3. Wills Now Preserved in the Probate Registry at Chichester 1482-1800 Croucher, Clement, Eastdean 35 334 1734

FamilyHistoryOnline has the following entry in Sussex Burials: CLEMENT CROUCHER Date 13 May 1734 at East Dean.

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