Birth: April-June 1894 Dorking, Surrey, UK
Father: Thomas Croucher 1855-a1901
Mother: Ellen Daniels 1858-1896
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Unknown
Death: After 1911
Unknown
Birth of Ernest Croucher in FreeBMD in April-June 1894 in Dorking (2a 154).
His mother died in 1896.
In the 1901 census as Ernest Croucher aged 6, born in Dorking, Surrey and living with his widowed father (Thomas), two brothers (Thomas and Percy J), two sisters (Daris A and Ellen A), and a great aunt (Sarah Stoner aged 61, widowed, and a domestic house keeper on her own account), and three cousins (Harriett Stoner aged 20, Emily Stoner aged 17, and Ellen Stoner aged 4, all born in Dorking, and the elder two both single and domestic servants ) at 9 Harrow Road, Dorking.
His father married Mary Ann Stoner just after the 1901 census.
His father died in 1908 in Guildford.
His mother married Stephen Ellsey in 1910 in Chertsey.
His two half brothers were born in Chertsey in 1904 and 1908, but his sister was born in Dorking in 1909.
In the 1911 census as Ernest Croucher aged 17, born in Dorking and living in Chertsey, Surrey with Eliza (grandmother?), Harold and John (halfbrothers?), Grace, (halfsister?), Stephen and Mary Ann Ellsey (step-parents).
Colin Smith has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Ernest Croucher in 1895 in Dorking, parents Thomas Croucher and Ellen Daniels, and the 1901 and 1911 censuses (Boarding with his stepmother Mary Ann Ellsey through her marriage to Thomas Croucher in 1901. Ernest is single and occupation is Shop Boy). Jamie Hack gives his birth in April-June 1894 in Dorking, parents Thomas Croucher and Ellen Daniels, and the 1901 census.