Adolphus James Croucher (1868-1936)

Dates

Birth: 20 August 1868 Quartz Reef, Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia
Father: George Alexander Croucher 1815-1881
Mother: Eliza Francis Gray c1827-1895

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 1893 Victoria, Australia
Wife: Jane Ann (Anne) Morris 1871-1955

Death: 8 August 1936 Bright, Indi, Victoria, Australia

Children

Frederick Arthur Croucher 1893-1972
Dulcima Croucher [Knight] 1895-1923
Olive Fanny Croucher [Fowler] 1899-1955
Mary Ellen Croucher 1901
Edna Margaret Croucher [Gourlay] 1905-1977
Cedric Andrew Croucher 1909-1944

Notes

Entry in Ancestry Victoria, Australia, Birth Index, 1837-1917 for Adolphus James Croucher born in 1868, father George Croucher, mother's maiden name Gray.

Birth of Adolphus James Croucher in a submitted entry in the IGI in 1868 in Quartz Reef, Victoria, Australia, parents George Alexander Croucher and Eliza Francis Gray.

Entry in Ancestry Victoria, Australia, Marriage Index, 1837-1950 for Adolphus Jas Croucher and Jane Ann Morris in 1893.

Entry in Ancestry Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 for Adolphus Jas Croucher and Jane Anne Morris in 1893 in Victoria.

Frederick Arthur was born in Harrietsville in 1893 and the other children in Myrtleford from 1895 to 1909.

There are five entries in Ancestry All Australian Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 for Adolphus Croucher, a miner to 1908 and a contractor from 1912, living in Myrtleford, Indi, Victoria from 1003 to 1914, other occupants (not necessarily in the same house) Jane Ann Croucher (wife?), Arthur John Croucher (brother?), Amelia Croucher (sister- in-law in 1903), Emeline Croucher (sister-in-law) in 1908 and 1909, Margaret Emeline Croucher (sister-in-law from 1912), Gordon Croucher in 1912, Irene and Margaret Gray Croucher (neices) from 1912 and Edward William Croucher (nephew?) in 1914, and five entries for Adolphus James Croucher, a contractor in 1919 and 1924, and a labourer from 1931, living in Bright, Indi, Victoria from 1919 to 1936, other occupants Jane Ann Croucher in 1919, and William George Croucher (brother?) in 1919 and 1912 and 1934, and also an entry for Adolphus James Croucher, a labourer living in Kacoona, Yackandandah, Indi Victoria in 1931. His wife and daughter (Olive Fanny) were living at 87 Barkly Street, Fitzroy North, Batman Victoria in 1924 and with daughter (Edna Margaret) at 4 Marine Avenue, St Kilda Central, Balaclava, Victoria in 1936.

There are seventy eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Adolphus James Croucher adding his birth on 20 August 1868 in Myrtleford, and his death on 8 August 1936

Jenny Hefferman has an entry for Adolphus James Croucher born on 20 August 1868 in Myrtleford, and his death on 8 August 1936.

Entry in Geneanet Community Trees Index for Adolphus James Croucher.

Myrtleford is about 125 miles NE of Melbourne, Harrietville is about 40 miles SE of Myrtleford. Quartz Reef has also been known as Stoney Creek, Goat Town, Palmerston and is now Gapstead. It is just NW of Myrtleford.

Relationship

Adolphus James Croucher was the second great grandson of James.

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