Birth: October-December 1876 Wroxall, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, UK
Father: John Croucher 1839-1904
Mother: Jane Anne Russell 1841-1912
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 4 June 1913 St Peter, Shorwell, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Alice Downer 1880-1924
Death: 12 April 1959 St Mary's Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK
Adolphus Henry Croucher 1915-1915
Raymond John Croucher 1917-1985
Monica Barbara Croucher [Harvey] 1922-1982
Birth of Adolphus James Croucher in FreeBMD in October-December 1876 in I Wight (2B 577).
In the 1881 census as Adolphus Croucher aged 4, born in Wroxhall, Isle of Wight, and living with his parents (John and Jane), two brothers (Leonard and Rowland) and three sisters (Bertha, Lotty L, and Maria) at the Wellington Hotel, High St, Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
In the 1891 census as Adolphus J Croucher aged 14, born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, and living with his parents (John and Jane A), two brothers (Alph Jones W and Leonard) and five sisters (Bertha C, Laninga R, Lotty L, Mabel B and Marcia G) in Brading, Isle of Wight.
In the 1901 census as Adolphus J Coomber (sic - in the index, Croucher on the original) aged 24, born in Wroxhall, Isle of Wight, single, a baker working at home, and living with his parents (John and Jane A), two brothers (Alphonso W and Leonard), and two sisters (Lybrina R and Mabel B) in Avenue Road, Shaklin, Isle of Wight.
In the 1911 Census as Adolphus James Croucher aged 33, born in Wroxall, a master baker working at home, and living with his widowed mother (Jane Ann) and sister (Mabel Blanch) in eight rooms at Beaconsfield, Avenue Road, Shanklin, Isle Of Wight.
There is an entry in Ancestry Kelly's Directory 1911 for Adolphus Croucher, a grocer of Wilton Park Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Marriage of Adolphus J Croucher and Alice Downer in FreeBMD in April-June 1913 in the Isle of Wight (2B 1209).
Marriage of Adolphus James Croucher of Shanklin, father John Croucher, and Alice Downer, father Henry Downer, in the IGI on 4 June 1913 in Shorwell, Hampshire. The same information is in Ancestry All England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
His two sonds were born in Brading, Isle of Wight in 1915 and 1917.
In the 1921 census for Adolphus James Croucher born in 1876 and living with Alice Croucher (wife?), Raymond John croucher (son?) and one other in Sandown, Isle of Wight, Hampshire.
His daughter was born in Brading, Isle of Wight in 1922.
His wife died in Shanklin in 1924.
There is an entry in Ancestry Kelly's Directory 1927 for Adolphus Croucher, a grocer of Wilton Park Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Death of Adolphus J Croucher in FreeBMD in April-June 1959 aged 82 in the Isle of Wight (6B 732).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Adolphus James Croucher died 12 April 1959 in Isle of Wight, probate 6 July 1959 in London. "Croucher Adolphus James of Thorneycroft 78 Wilton Park Road Shanklin Isle of Wight died 12 April 1959 at St Marys Hospital Newport Isle of Wight Probate London 6 July to Monica Barbara Harvey married woman. Effects £5922 12s."
There are forty entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Adolphus Croucher.
There are three entries in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Adolphus Croucher.
Adolphus James Croucher was the second great grandson of James.
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