Birth: 1834 Ripley, Sopley, Hampshire, UK
Father: Thomas Croucher c1791-a1851
Mother: Ann ? c1798-1853
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: April-June 1895 Ringwood, Hampshire, UK
Unknown
Christening of John Croucher in a submitted entry in the IGI on 26 October 1934 in Sopley, Hampshire, parents Thomas and Ann Croucher.
In the 1841 census as John Croucher aged 5, born in Hampshire, and living with Thomas (father?), Ann (mother?), Alexander, Ann, Charles, Emily, Hannah, Selina and William (brothers and sisters?) at Ripley, Sopley, Hampshire.
In the 1851 census as John Croucher aged 15, born in Sopley, and living with his parents (Thomas and Anne), brother (Alexander), and three sisters (Anne, Elizabeth and Selina) at at Ripley Townsend, Sopley, Hampshire.
In the 1861 census as John Croucher aged 24, born in Sopley, Hampshire, single, a labourer, and living in Ripley, Sopley, Hampshire.
In the 1871 census as John Croucher aged 34, born in Ripley, unmarried, a railway labourer, and living with his unmarried sister (Anne Coucher), and her two sons (Fred and James) at Bagnum Cottages, Ringwood, Hampshire.
In the 1881 census as John Croucher aged 44, born in Sopley, single a railway gateman, and living with his unmarried sister (Emily Croucher) at Crow Hill, Ringwood, Hampshire.
In the 1891 census as John Croucher aged 57, born in Sopley, single, a general labourer, but crippled and receiving parish relief, and living with his unmarried and blind sister (Emeline Croucher) in two rooms in Ringwood Road, Burley, Hampshire.
Death of John Croucher in FreeBMD in April-June 1895 aged 59 in Ringwood (2b 419).
Ripley is just north of Sopley, and three miles north of Christchurch. Christchurch was in Hampshire until 1974.