Birth: 26 September 1885 Kensington, Middlesex, UK
Father: William Croucher 1848-1913
Mother: Mary Ann Percy 1847-1937
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 28 September 1907 St Luke, Paddington, London, UK
Husband: Walter Maddock 1883-1953
Death: January-March 1971 Folkestone, Kent, UK
Gwendoline Ethel Maddock [Quick] 1912-1993
Ronald Walter Maddock 1913-1985
Doreen Mary Maddock [Elsmere] 1920-2004
Birth of Ethel Mary Croucher in FreeBMD in October-December 1885 in Kensington (1a 108).
In the 1891 census as Ethel M Croucher aged 5, born in Kensington, and living with her parents (William and Mary A), four brothers (Albert H, Charles G and Percy W), and four sisters (Annie M, Edith L, Emma J and Lydia M) in three rooms at 134 Wornington Road, Kensington, London (four other families shared the same address).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911 for Ethel Croucher born on 26 September 1885, father William of 4 St Ervans Road, at Wornington Road School, Kensington and Chelsea on 26 July 1893. Wornington Road School opened 1874, Florence Gladstone Secondary School from 1951, Wornington Road School for Infants closed 1977.
In the 1901 census as Eshel (sic - on the original) Foucher (sic - in the index, Croucher on the original) aged 15, born in N Kensington, and living with her parents (William and Mary A), two brothers (Albert H and Percy W), and five sisters (Abigal G P, Anne M, Edith L, Emma J, and Lydia M) at 4 St Ervans Road, Kensington, London.
Marriage of Ethel Mary Croucher and Walter Maddock in FreeBMD in July-September 1907 in Paddington (1a 95).
There are two entries in Ancestry All London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Ethel Mary Croucher and Walter Maddock banns on 22 September 1907 at Paddington St Luke, "The Year 1907 Banns of Marriage between Walter Maddock (B) and Ethel Mary Croucher (S) both of this Parish 32 Tavistock Creat. Sep 8th, Sep 15, Sep 22, married Sep 28 1907", and aged 22, father William Croucher, and Walter Maddock aged 24, father John Maddock, on 28 September 1907 at Westbourne Park St Luke. "1907 Marriage solemnized at St Luke's Church in the Parish of Paddington in the County of Middlesex No 169 28th September 1907 Walter Maddock aged 24, a batchelor and a postman, father John Maddock (deceased) and Ethel Mary Croucher aged 22, a spinster, father William Croucher, a signalman, both of 32 Tavistock Crescent, in the Church of St Luke according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by banns in the Presence of us, William J Ledgbeer and William Croucher."
In the 1911 census as Ethel Mary Maddock aged 25, born in North Kensington, London, married for three years, no children, and living with her husband (Walter) in four rooms at 13 Fourth Avenue, Queens Park, Paddington W.
Her first daughter was born in Paddington in 1912, her son in Willesden in 1913, and another daughter was born in Willesden in 1920.
There are ten entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Ethel Mary Maddock living at 58 Rainham Road, Willesden between 1923 and 1937. Walter Maddock (husband?) was living at the same address as were Abigal Grace Edgar (sister?) and Ralph Edgar (brother-in-law?) from 1923 to 1928, Lydia May Croucher (sister?) from 1923, Mary Ann Croucher (mother?) from 1924, Jane Scales in 1929, Gwendoline Ethel Maddock (daughter?) from 1934, Georgina Bowdon in 1934, and Ronald Walter Maddock (son?) from 1935. There are also ten entries for Ethel M Maddock address 60 Oakington Manor Drive, Wembly in 1950 to 1965, other occupants Walter Maddock (husband?) in 1950 and 1951, Ronald W Maddock (son?), and Joyce M Maddock (daughter-in-law) from 1955.
Her husband died on 7 January 1953 at 60 Oakington Manor Drive, Wembley, Middlesex and left effects of £2636 14s 7d to Ethel Mary Maddock widow.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Ethel Mary Maddock, born on 26 September 1885, in January-March 1971 in Folkestone (5f 1325).
Stanley Classius Croucher has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Ethel Mary Croucher born in 1885, parents William Croucher and Mary Ann Percy, her marriage to Walter Maddock, a son and two daughters, and her death in 1971.
Note Kensington was in Middlesex until 1889.
Ethel Mary Croucher was the third great granddaughter of Thomas Croucher.