Julia Ann Croucher [Dobson] (1856-1896)


Dates

Birth: October-December 1856 Rye, Sussex, UK
Father: George Croucher 1819-1903
Mother: Sarah Jane Gammon c1821-1912

Christening: 21 January 1857 Rye, Sussex, UK

Marriage: July-September 1874 Auckland, County Durham, UK
Wife: Charlotte Amelia Amon 1861-1941

Death: October-December 1896 Sedgefield, County Durham, UK

Children

William George Croucher 1884-1970

Notes

Birth of Julia Ann Croucher in FreeBMD in October-December 1856 in Rye (2b 6).

Christening of Julia Ann Croucher in the IGI on 21 January 1857 in Rye, Sussex, parents George and Sarah Croucher. There is another entry in the index with the same information but the christening is in Houghton Le Spring, Durham.

In the 1861 census as Julia Ann Croucher aged 4, born in Rye, Sussex, and living with her mother (Sarah Jane), brother (Herbert) and two sisters (Naomi Jane and Sarah Jane) at 20 Hoads Buildings, Winchelsea Road,, Rye, Sussex.

Her sister was born in Folkstone in 1863.

In the 1871 census as Julia Crouch (sic - on the original) aged 15, born in Rye, Sussex, and a servant living with William Graves (aged 35, born in Spalding, Lincolnshire and a lodging house keeper), his wife (Caroline Graves aged 36 and born in Waltham Abbey, Essex), a neice (Ellen Shellcross aged 17, born in Waltham Abbey, Essex, single and a housemaid), a nephew (George W Aspland aged 6 and born in Bromley, Kent), and three boarders (Sedrinna Soden aged 43, born in Paris, France but a British Subject and widowed, Margaret Moore aged 63, born in Middlesex, London and widowed, and Elizabeth Fountain aged 27, single and born in Middlesex, London, all annuitants) at 87 Landgate Road, Folkstone, Kent.

Marriage of Julia Croucher and Robert Dobson in FreeBMD in July-September 1874 in Auckland (10a 340).

Her first two daughters were born in Spennymoor in 1875 and 1876, and son in Tudhoe in 1878.

In the 1881 census as Julia A Dobson aged 24, born in Rye, Sussex, and living with her husband (Robert), son (John G), and three daughters (Eleanor, May E and Sarah A) in Metal Bridge Village, Ferryhill, Durham.

In the 1891 census as Julia Ann Dobson aged 34, born in Rye, Sussex, and living with her husband (Robert), three sons (Hert, John George and Thomas), and three daughters (Eleanor, Mary Elizabeth and Sarah Ann) in three rooms in Railway Ro, Ferry Hill, Durham.

Death of Julia Ann Dobson in FreeBMD in October-December 1896 aged 39 in Sedgefield (10a 60).

There are some eleven entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Julia Ann Croucher born in Rye, Sussex, England in 1857, parents George Croucher and Sarah Jane Gammon in two, her marriage to Robert Dobson in July 1874 (in New Zealand in one entry), her seven children, and her death in December 1896 in Durham in three entries (one of which puts Durham in North Carolina).

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