Birth: About 1817 Steep. Hampshire, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1842 Alton, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Susan (Susanna, Susannah) Gauntlet (Gauntlett) 1817-1881
Death: October-December 1868 Petersfield, Hampshire, UK
Maria Gauntlet Croucher 1842-a1851
William Croucher 1844-a1851
Susannah Gaunlett Croucher 1847-a1851
Eli Croucher 1849-a1901
Harriet (Harriett) Gauntlett Croucher [Croucher] 1854-1906
George Croucher c1854-a1871
John Gaunlet (Gauntlett) Croucher 1856-a1884
Walter Andrew (Andrew Walter) Croucher 1859-1860
I cannot find an entry for his christening.
In the 1841 census as John Croucher aged 20 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Hampshire, a male servant and living with Harry Wakefield (aged 35 and no stated employment), Fanny Wakefield aged 30, Jane Wakefield aged 10, Sophia Baudlett aged 25, Henry Purchas aged 20 and a farmer at Hill House, Hawkley, Hampshire.
Marriage of John Croucher and Susan Gaunlett in FreeBMD in January-March 1842 in Alton (7 25).
Maria and William were born in Selbourne and Susan in Buriton so the family moved about 1846.
In the 1851 census as John Coucher (sic - on the original) aged 32, born in Steep, Hampshire,an agricultural labourer and living with his wife (Susana), two sons (William and Eli), two daughters (Mariah and Susan), (step)daughter (Elizabeth), and a lodger (Harriett Louis aged 1 and born in Petersfield, Hampshire) in Lower Nursted, Buriton, Hampshire.
His son George was born in Lavington, Sussex in 1854 so the family moved before and after then.
In the 1861 census as John Croucher aged 44, born in Steep, Hampshire, an agricultural labourer and living with his wife (Susannah), three sons (Eli, George and John), and daughter (Harriete) in Tanyard Road, Steep, Hampshire.
Entry in FreeBMD for the death of John Croucher in October-December 1868 aged 50 in Petersfield (2c 91).
Joan Straker has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Croucher born in 1817 in Steep, his marriage to Susannnah Gauntlet, the 1861 census, and four children (Eli, Harriet, George and John) and his death in 1871. Davies Dowsen has similar information but giving the birth in 1816 and the death in 1868.