Birth: Circa 1820 Gillingham, Kent, UK
Father: John Croucher c1791-1846
Mother: Mary ? C1791-1865
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 24 Jul 1842 Gillingham, Kent, UK
Wife: Selina Bethney c1824-1860
Marriage: 19 Mar 1865 St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Eliza Challenor 1836-1911
Death: 20 July 1885 Gillingham, Kent, UK
By Selina
Frederick John Croucher 1844-1845
Hubert Croucher c1845
Rechender Julia Croucher 1846-1851
Traverna (Trevenia) Mary Croucher 1846-1849
Malcolm John Croucher 1848
Julia Amelia Croucher 1853-1877
(Frank) Alban (Allan) Thomas Croucher 1855-1891
Ferdinand F Croucher c1857
Horace William Croucher 1859
By Eliza
Emma Jane Croucher 1861
Arthur Croucher 1863-a1901
Alfred James Croucher 1865-1871
Annie Harrietta Croucher 1869-a1881
Louisa Clara Croucher 1871
Florence Croucher 1880
In the 1841 census as Frank Croucher aged 20 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Kent, a carpenter and living with John and Mary (parents?), Alban, Jabez and John (sons?) at Christmas Cottages, Gillingham, Kent.
Marriage of Frank William Croucher and Selina Bethney in FreeBMD in July-September 1842 in Medway (5 418).
His sons Frederick and Hubert born in Gillingham in 1844 and 1845, two daughters (twins?) Rechender Julia and Traverna (Trevenia) Mary were born in Chatham in 1846 and christened in Gillingham in April 1849, and his son Malcolm was born in Chatham in 1848.
In the 1851 census as Frank W Croucher aged 31, born in Gillingham, Kent, a carpenter and living with his wife (Selenia), two sons (Hubert and Michael) and daughter (Richender) at Church Road, New Brompton, Gillingham, Kent. His widowed mother (Mary) and two brothers (Alban and Jabez) were living separately at the same address.
His daughter Julia Amelia was born in Lambeth in 1853 and son Frank Alban Thomas at St Martins in the Fields in 1855, son Ferdinand in St Giles in 1857 and Horace William in Chatham in 1859.
His wife died at St Martins in the Fields in 1860.
His daughter Emma Jane was born in Drury Lane, Middlesex in 1861 - I guess Eliza Challenor was her mother.
In the 1861 census as Frederic (sic - on the original) Croucher aged 36, born in Gillingham, Kent, widowed, a carpenter and living with a housekeeper (Eliza Croucher not married - I assume this was Eliza Challenor who he married in 1865), four sons (Alban S, Ferdinand F, Horace and Malcolm J), and three daughters (Emma Jane, Julia A and Trevinia M) at 1 Kings Head Yard, Long Acre, Westminster St Martin in the Fields , Middlesex. Another family lived at the same address.
His daughter Emma Jane was born in Drasy Lane, Middlesex in 1861, but from Arthur in 1864 the children were born in St Anne, Soho.
Marriage of Frank William Croucher and Eliza Challenor in FreeBMD in January-March 1965 in St Martin (1a 595).
Marriage of Frank William Croucher and Eliza Challenor in the ">IGI on 19 March 1865 at Saint Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London.
In the 1871 census as Frank Wm Croucher aged 50, born in Gillingham, Kent, married but not with his wife, a carpenter and joiner, and living with his five sons (Alfred, Allan, Arthur, Ferdinand and Horace), and four daughters (Anne, Emma, Julia and Louise) at 23 Little Newport Street, St Anne Soho, Westminster. Another five families lived at the same address. His wife was a patient at Charing Cross Hospital, St Martin in The Fields.
His son Alfred James died in Medway within three months of the 1871 census.
His daughter Florence was born in Gillingham in 1880 (was she really his daughter?).
In the 1881 census as Chow (sic - in the index, original illegible) Croucher, aged 61, born in Chatham, Kent, a blacksmith, and living with his wife (Eliza), two sons (Arthur and Horace), and four daughters (Ann, Emma, Florence and Laura) at 38 Napier Rd, Gillingham, Kent.
Death of Frank William Croucher in FreeBMD in April-June 1885 aged 67 in Medway (2a 377).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Frank William Croucher born in 1820 in Gillingham, Kent, parents John and Mary Croucher, his marriage to Selina Bethley on 24 July 1842 in Gillinham, Kent, eight children, and his death on 20 July 1885 in Medway, Kent.
Frank William Croucher was the great grandfather of David Reginald Croucher, husband of Patricia Ann Ashford, my half third cousin once removed.