Birth: 1 November 1935 North Bersted, Sussex, UK
Father: Frank Croucher (Crowcher) 1795-1859
Mother: Hannah (Anna) Bay 1791-1876
Christening: 22 November 1835 South Bersted, Sussex, UK
Marriage: 21 June 1866 South Bersted, Sussex, UK
Husband: John Clear 1831-1897
Death: October-December 1919 Westhampnett, Sussex, UK
James Clear 1867-1943
Sarah Ann Clear [Beer] 1869-1946
John Clear 1871-1948
George Clear 1873-1939
Christening of Frances Croucher in the IGI on 22 November 1835 in South Bersted, Sussex, parents Frank and Hannah Croucher.
In the 1841 census as Fanny Croucher aged 5, born in Sussex, and living with Frank and Ann (parents?), Edward, Frank and James (brothers?) in South Berstead, Sussex.
In the 1851 census as Fanny Croucher aged 15, born in North Bersted, Sussex, and living with her parents (Frank and Hannah), two brothers (Edmund and James), and sister (Ellen) in South Bersted, Sussex.
In the 1861 census as Fanny Croucher aged 25, born in North Bersted, Sussex, single, and a housemaid living with Caroline Bramwell (aged 44, born in Wickham, Hampshire, widowed and a hotel keeper), her son (Algeron aged 7 and born in Bognor, Sussex), two daughters (Alice aged 9 and Clara aged 10, both born in Bognor, Sussex), Caroline's brother (Horatio Newman aged 34, born in Gosport, Hampshire, single and a wine merchant), sister (Amelia Newman aged 50, born in Battle, Sussex, single and an assistant hotel keeper), neice (Elizabeth Newman aged 22 born in Gosport, Hampshire and an assistant hotel keeper), a porter (George Deadman aged 21, born in Bognor, Sussex, and single), a cook (Sarah Hamnam aged 22, born in Eastergate, Sussex, and single), and a visitor (David J M Lauchlam aged 65, born in Chichester, Sussex, widowed, and a carver and gilder looking glass manufacturer) at the Sussex Hotel, South Bersted, Sussex
Marriage of Frances Croucher and John Clear in FreeBMD in October-December 1851 in Chichester (2b 582).
Marriage of Frances Croucher and John Clear in the IGI on 21 June 1866 in South Bersted, Sussex.
In the 1871 census as Frances Clear aged 35, born in Bersted, Sussex, and living with her husband (John), two sons (James and John), daughter (Sarah A) and widowed mother-in-law (Sarah) in Shripney, South Bersted, Sussex.
In the 1881 census as Fanny Clear aged 45, born in North Bersted, Sussex, and living with her husband (John), three sons (George, James and John), and daughter (Annie) in Shripney Street, South Bersted, Sussex.
In the 1891 census as Fanny Clen (sic - in the index, original illegible) aged 56, born in North Bersted, Sussex, and living with her husband (John), and two sons (George and John) in North Bersted Street, South Bersted, Sussex.
Her husband died in Westhampnett in 1897.
In the 1901 census as Frances Clear aged 65, born in North Bersted, Sussex, widowed, and living with her son (James), daughter-in-law (Kate), three grandsons (James, John and William), and granddaughter (Frances) in four rooms in Birdham, Sussex.
In the 1911 census as Frances Clear aged 75 and living in Westhampnett, Sussex.
Death of Frances Clear in FreeBMD in October-December 1919 aged 83 in Westhampnett (2b 457).
Pamela Triggs has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees or Frances Croucher born 1 November 1835, parents Frank Croucher and Hannah Bay. Mike Blake has an entry with no parents but adding her marriage to John Clear on 21 June 1866 and her four children. M Hollister adds her parents as Frank Croucher and Hannah Bay.