Birth: 10 October 1903 Stranton, Durham, UK
Father: George Henry J Croker 1867-1919
Mother: Elizabeth Elsworth 1872-1921
Christening: 12 December 1903 Stranton, Durham, UK
Marriage: October-December 1925 Hartlepool, Durham, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Booth 1906-1963
Death: October-December 1982 N Cleveland, UK
Joseph Elsworth Croker 1926-2003
Elizabeth Croker 1930
Valerie Croker 1941
Birth of Joseph Croker in FreeBMD in October-December 1903 in Hartlepool (10a 157).
Entry in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Joseph Croker born on 10 October 1903, baptised on 12 December 1903 at Stranton, Durham, parents George and Elizabeth Croker.
In the 1911 census as Joseph Croker aged 7, born in West Hartlepool, Durham, and living with his mother (Elizabeth) and a boarder (John Edward(s) aged 35, born in West Hartlepool, Durham single, a Labourer Amy Pensioner Dockyard) in two rooms at 9 Alma Street, West Hartlepool.
His father died in 1919 and mother in 1921, both in Hartlepool.
Marriage of Joseph Croker and Elizabeth Booth in FreeBMD in October-December 1925 in Hartlepool (10a 253).
His son and daughter were born in Hartlepool in 1926 and 1930 and second daughter in West Hartlepool in 1941.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Joseph Croker born 10 October 1903, married, a P B V Water driver and A.R.P., and living with Elizabeth Croker and two others (son and daughter?) at 17 Crimdon Street, West Hartlepool, Durham.
His wife died on 1 March 1963 at Brierton Hospital, residence 130 Raby Road, West Hartlepool, and left effects of £261 10s. to Joseph Croker lorry driver.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Joseph Croker, born on 10 October 1903, in October-December 1982 in N Cleveland (3 2721).
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Joseph Croker born in Hartlepool, Durham on 10 December 1903, his marriage to Elizabeth Booth in Hartlepool in 1925, his son Joseph Elsworth Croker, and his death in December 1982 in Hartlepool, Cleveland.
Hartlepool became part of N Cleveland in 1974.
Joseph Croker was the father of Joseph Elsworth Croker, husband of Irene Durham, granddaughter of Barbara Ann Barton, wife of William Thompson, uncle of Stoddart Thompson, husband of Lily Alice Botell, mother of Eric Francis Botell, my brother-in-law.
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