Birth: 16 September 1824 Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, UK
Father: Joseph Croucher 1799-1844
Mother: Sarah Schroder 1800-1872
Christening: 21 November 1824 Bull Lane Independent, Stepney, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: 25 July 1853 Church of our Lady, Star of the Sea, Greenwich, Kent, Uk
Wife: Ellen Sarah Parker 1830-1911
Death: October-December 1909 Greenwich, London, UK
Charles Eustace Croucher 1856
Mary Winefred Croucher 1857
Maurice Croucher 1860
Rosa Agnes Croucher 1862
Helen Dolores Croucher 1865
Francis Benedict Croucher 1867
Stephen Joseph Croucher 1873
Birth of Joseph Schroder Croucher in the IGI on 16 September 1824, and his christening on 21 November 1824 at Bull Lane Independent, Stepney, London, parents Joseph and Sarah Croucher.
In the 1841 census as Joseph Croucher aged 17, born in Middlesex, no stated employment, and living with Joseph and Sarah (parents?) and Sarah (sister?) at 6 James Street, St Margaret, Middlesex. Another family lived at this address.
In the 1851 census as Joseph Croucher aged 26, born in Mile End, Middlesex, single,a civil engineer, and lodging at 22 Lambeth Road, London Road, Southwark St George, Surrey.
Marriage of Joseph Schroder Croucher and Ellen Sarah Parker in FreeBMD in July-September 1853 in Greenwich (1d 945).
Charles and Mary were born in Lewisham in 1856 and 1857 and Maurice in Greenwich in 1860.
In the 1861 census as Joseph S Croucher aged 36, born in Stepney, Middlesex, a civil engineer, and living with his wife (Ellen S), three daughters (Frances Render, Helen and Rosa Agnes), and two servants (Ellen Callaghan aged 33 and Ann Nelan aged 26, both born in Ireland and single) at 11 The Grove, Blackheath, West Greenwich, Kent.
In the 1871 census as Joseph Croucher aged 46, born in Stepney, Middlesex, a civil engineer, and living with his wife (Ellen S), two sons (Charles E and Maurice), daughter (Mary W), and a servant (Hellen Fanning aged 19, born in Guildford, Surrey and single) at Hyde Vale, West Greenwich, Kent.
In the 1881 census as Joseph S Croucher aged 56, born in Stepney, Middlesex, a civil engineer, and living with his wife (Ellen L), two daughters (Rosa A and Mary W), and two servants (Ellen Sheehan aged 34, born in Ireland, single and a cook, and Mary J. Bullock aged 16, born in Tedstour, Worcestershire and a nursemaid) at 6 Glen Mohe? Terrace, West Greenwich, Kent. I cannot find an entry for his son Stephen.
In the 1891 census as Joseph S Croneher (sic - in the index, Croucher on the original) aged 66, born in Stepney, London, a civil engineer, but not employed or an employer and living with his wife (Ellen S), son (Stephen J), two daughters (Helen D) and Rosa A), and two servants (Jane Dejoseph aged 53, born in Greenwich, London, married, and an upholsteress and cook, and Annie Sullivan aged 21, born in Rotherhithe, London, single and a housemaid) at 3 The Grove, Blackheath, Greenwich, London.
In the 1901 census as Joseph S Croucher aged 76, born in Stepney, Middlesex, a retired civil engineer, and living with his wife (Ellen S), and two servants (Elizabeth C Howe aged 34, born in Deptford, Kent, single and a cook, and Emma Mors aged 18, born in Whippingham, Cambridgeshire, single and a housemaid) at 3 The Grove, Blackheath, West Greenwich, Kent.
Death of Joseph Schroder Croucher in FreeBMD in October-December 1909 in Greenwich (1d 533).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Joseph Schroder Croucher born in Verwood, Dorset in 1825, his marriage to Ellen Sarah Parker at Church of our Lady, Star of the Sea, Greenwich on 25 July 1853, his nine children including James, Leonard and Edith Florence who do not belong to this family), and his death in 1909.
Greenwich was transfered from Kent to London in 1889.