Birth: Circa 1826 Empshott, Hampshie, UK
Father: Samuel Croucher 1785-b1851
Mother: Lucy Eade 1786-1865
Marriage: 23 July 1848 Empshott, Hampshire, UK
Husband: Thomas Sawkins (Saweaus) c1825-1909
Death: July-September 1909 Alton, Hampshire, UK
Daniel Sawkins c1848-a1871
Thomas Sawkins 1849-a1871
George Sawkins 1854-c1871
Samuel Sawkins 1857-a1871
Charles Henry Sawkins 1859-a1881
Elizabeth Sawkins 1864-a1871
Albert Sawkins 1867-1871
Fred Sawkins 1869-a1881
George Sawkins 1871-a1891
Florence Sawkins 1875-a1891
Her father died before 1841.
In the 1841 census as Frances Croucher aged 11, born in Hampshire and living with Lucy (mother?), Danial (brother?) and Martha (sister?) in Empshott, Hampshire.
Marriage of Frances Croucher and Thomas Saweaus in FreeBMD in July-September 1848 in Petersfield (7 177 - there is another entry on 179 in the index, but it is not on the handwritten original).
Marriage of Frances Croucher, father Samuel Croucher, and Thomas Saweaus, father James Saweaus, in the IGI on 23 July 1848 in Empshott, Hampshire.
Her first son was born in Empshott in about 1848, but the rest of the children were born in Newton Valence so the family moded 1848-1849.
In the 1851 census as Frances Sawkins aged 25, born in Empshott, Hampshire, and living with her husband (Thomas), two sons (Daniel and Thomas), widowed mother (Lucy) and neice (Harriet Croucher - daughter of Martha) in Newton Street, Newton Valence, Hampshire.
In the 1861 census as Frances Sawkins aged 36, born in Empshott, Hampshire, and living with her husband (Thomas), four sons (Charles H, Daniel, George and Samuel) and widowed mother (Lucy) in Newton Street, Newton Valence, Hampshire.
In the 1871 census as Frances Sawkins aged 44, born in Empshott, Hampshire, and living with her husband (Thomas), seven sons (Albert, Fredric, Charles , Daniel, George, Samuel and Thomas) and daughter (Elizabeth) in Newton Valence, Hampshire.
In the 1881 census as Frances Sawkins aged 55, born in Empshott, Hampshire, and living with her husband (Thomas), three sons (Charles Henry, Frederick, and George) and daughter (Florence) in Newton Villiage, Newton Valence, Hampshire. Note this is a different George to that in the 1871 census.
In the 1891 census as Frances Sawkins aged 67, born in Empshott, Hampshire, and living with her husband (Thomas), son (George A), daughter (Florence) and a lodger (William Pottle aged 16, born in Horndean, Hampshire and a carter) in Newton Villiage, Newton Valence, Hampshire. Note this is a different George to that in the 1871 census.
In the 1901 census as Frances Sawkins aged 75, born in Empshott, Hampshire, and living with her husband (Thomas) in four rooms in the village, Newton Valence, Hampshire.
Death of Frances Sawkins in FreeBMD in July-September 1909 aged 84 in Alton (2c 95).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Frances Croucher born in 1831 in Empshott, Hampshire, married to Thomas Even Sawkins (however this is the wrong one) and her death in September 1909 in Alton, Hampshire. There is another entry giving her parents as Elijah Croucher and Charlotte May, but these were in Kent. Another entry gives her mother as Lucy Croucher and eight of her children. Another gives her birth in 1827 in Empshott, mother Lucy Croucher, her marriage to Thomas Sawkins , eight children, and her death in Alton in September 1909.