Birth: 1810 Candlewick, City of London, Middlesex, UK
Father: John Honuor Croucher 1784-1851
Mother: Elizabeth Bourne 1786-1870
Christening: 5 September 1810 St Clements, Great Eastcheap, London, Middlesex, UK
Marriage:October-December 1848 Lambeth, Surrey, UK
Wife: Henrietta Ann Darby 1823-1871
Death: July-September 1901 Farnham, Surrey, UK
Christening of John Honour Croucher in the IGI on 5 September 1810 at St Clements, Great Eastcheap, London, parents John Honour and Elizabeth Croucher. St. Clement Eastcheap is a Church of England parish church in Candlewick Ward of the City of London. It is located on Clement’s Lane, off King William Street, and close to London Bridge and the River Thames.
In the 1841 census as Jno Honour Croucher Jnr aged 30, born in Middlesex, employment illegible, and living with Jno Honour Croucher and Eliz (parents?) at Tredegar Square West, Mile End Old Town Lower, Stepney, Middlesex (opposite side of A11 to St Clements Royal London Hospital).
Marriage of John Honor Croucher and Henrietta Ann Darby in FreeBMD in October-December 1848 in Lambeth (4 256A). This entry has been added afterwards on the handwritten copy, squeezed in between two entries.
In the 1851 census as John H Croucher aged 40, born in London, Middlesex, a school master and living with his wife (Henrietta ), daughter (Henrietta C), mother-in-law (Elizabeth Darby), sister-in-law (Marjanna Darby), a visitor, two assistants, 6 servants (housemaids, cook, linen women etc) and 15 pupils at 7 Trafalger Place, Clapham Rise, Kennington First, Lambeth, Surrey. This is just west of Stockwell station.
The first two daughters were born in Lambeth, but Constance was apparently born in Brighton in about 1854, and Ada in Lambeth.
In the 1861 census as John H Croucher aged 57, born in Middlesex, Cpl? to Australian ?, and living with his wife (Henrietta A), son (John A), four daughters (Ada M, Constance E, Henrietta and Katherine M) and mother (Elizabeth) at 4 Vassal Terrace, Kennington Second, Lambeth St Mary, Surrey. Vassal Road is SE of the Oval.
The family had moved to Handsworth, Staffordshire by 1865 from the birth of Walter, his wife died in Brent in 1871 and he probably emigrated to Australia (probably Queensland as his son died there in 1898) with his son John and possibly the rest of the family around this time.
In the 1881 census as John H Crouchar (sic - in the index, Croucher on the original) aged 70, born in London, Middlesex, widowed, employed as mining agent, and living with his son (Walter) and daughter (Henrietta) at Bwlchgwyn Mine, Cwmrheidol, Cardigan, Wales. Was this on the A44 near Ponterwyd (NGR 739789)- there are silver lead mines in this area.
In the 1891 census as John Honor Croucher aged 80, born in London, widowed, a retired mining agent but unemployed, and living with his daughter (Henrietta E), two visitors (Kate Ellis Beron aged 40, born in Kensington, London and widowed, and Bertha Mary Lee aged 41, born in Epsom, Surrey and single, both living on their own means), and two servants (Edith Mabel Colwell aged 16 and born in Fernhurst, Sussex, and Jack Hunter aged 17 and born in London) at Lower House Farm, North Ambersham (within Steep parish), Sussex.
In the 1901 Census as John H Croucher aged 90 born in London, married but no wife given, no occupation, and living with his daughter Harriet E (head of household), a son (Walter E S), 11 boarders, and 13 servants at the Morland Hotel, Grayshott, Frensham, Surrey.
Death of John Honor Croucher in FreeBMD in July-September 1901 aged 90 in Farnham (2a 90).