Birth: 3 September 1910 Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Father: Albert George Croucher 1880-1960
Mother: Millicent Tucker [Mann] 1886-1968
Marriage: 5 February 1936 Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia
Wife: Sabina [Sadie] Alice McKenzie 1911-2002
Death: 27 December 1994 Sydney, New South, Wales, Australia
Buried: 30 December 1994 Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South, Wales, Australia
Rowland Cameron Croucher 1937-a2010
David Reginald Croucher a1936-a1951
Graham Paul Croucher a1936-a1951
Entry in Ancestry Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 for Albert R Croucher born in 1910 in Petersham, New South Wales, parents Albert G and Millicent Croucher.
His brother was born and died in 1911 in Petersham, New South Wales, Australia.
His brother was born on 2 July 1919 in Bexley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
His brother was born and died in 1928 in Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia.
Entry in Ancestry Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 for Albert Reginald Croucher, a frederal public servant, address 28 Broughton Street, Mortdale, Peakhurst, Barton, New South Wales in 1935, other occupant Millicent Croucher (mother?).
There are two entries in Ancestry Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 for Albert Reginald Croucher and Sabina Alice Mackenzie in 1936 in Rockdale, New South Wales.
Three entries in Ancestry Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 for Albert Reginald Croucher, a frederal public servant, addresses 28 Broughton Street, Mortdale, Peakhurst, Barton, New South Wales from 1936 to 1943, other occupant Sabina Alice Croucher (wife?).
Entry in Ancestry Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945 for Albert Reginald Croucher born 3 September 1910 in Leichhardt, New South Wales, next of kin Sabina Croucher, enlisted Kogarah, New South Wales N242497 Army, Citizen Military Forces.
Eight entries in Ancestry Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 for Albert Reginald Croucher, public servant address 19 Louisa Street, Oatley, Barton, New South Wales from 1949 to 1968, other occupants Sabina Alice Croucher (wife?), Graham Paul Croucher (son?) in 1963 and David Reginald Croucher (son?) in 1968, and public servant 9/19 Victoria Avenue, Penshurst (2222 in 1977), Mortdale, Barton, New South Wales from 1972 to 1980, other occupant Sabina Alice Croucher (wife?).
Entry in Find a Grave for Albert Reginald Croucher born 3 September 1910 in New South Wales, Australia, parents Albert George (1880-1960) and Millicent Tucker Croucher (1886-1968), wife Sabina Alice Croucher (1911-2002 married 1936) died 27 December 1994 and buried in Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
Entry in Ancestry Australia and New Zealand, Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's to current for Albert Reginald Croucher 29 December 1994 in The Sydney Morning Herald. "Thursday 29 December 1994 Funerals Croucher. - The relatives and friends of the late Albert Reginald Croucher are invited to attend his graveside service, to be held at Woronora Lawn Cemetery, Sutherland, tomorrow (Friday, December 30. 1994), commencing at 2.30 p.m. Please meet at the cemetery office. Following the graveside service, a thanksgiving service will be held at Oakley Gospel Chapel, River Road (opposite Oatley station), commencing at 4 p.m. No flowers by request, donations to Australian Missionary Tidings, P.O Box 400, Chatswood. 2057".
Entry in Ancestry Australia and New Zealand, Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current for Albert Reginald Croucher dated 29 December in The Sydney Morning Herald spouse Sabina Alice, children David, Graham and Rowland. "Thursday 29 December 1994 Deaths Croucher, Albert Reginald, husband of Sabina Alice, loved father of Rowland, Graham and David andtheir families. Aged 84 years. With the Lord."
"In Loving Memory of/Albert Reginal Croucher/Died 27th December 1994 Aged 84 Years/Dearly Loved Husband of Sabina Alice/Loved Father of Rowland, Graham and David/With Christ".
Tom Croucher in Australia in an email stated that Albert Reginald Croucher was born in 1910 in Leichhardt, Sydney, parents Albert George Croucher and Millicent Mann or Tucker. His brother George was born in Leichhardt in 1911, Leslie in Bexley in 1919 and Maxwell in Rockdale in 1928, all in Sydney.
Phillipa Andrew has an entry for Albert Reginald (Reg) Croucher, born on 3 September 1910, parents Albert George Croucher and Millicant Tucker [Mann], his marriage to Sabina [Sadie] Alice McKenzie on 5 February 1936, his employment as a postal employee, Federal Public servant, his three sons, his death on 27 December 1994 and burial on 30 December 1994 at the Woronora Cemetery. She adds "Reg met Sadie at a church camp. After this they met regularly in Bay Street, Rockdale, near the corner with Cameron Street. Later they gave their eldest son the name of Cameron. Reg, Sadie and their three sons, Rowland Cameron, Graham Paul, and David Reginald first lived at 28 Broughton St, Mortdale [1936-1944]. "
Rowland Croucher writes his parents met "at a Christian camp at Wyee on the central north coast of New South Wales, then conducted a courtship where they met regularly at the corner of Bay and Cameron Streets, Rockdale, Sydney. (Hence the middle name - Cameron - for their firstborn). (Mum and Dad were married on 15/2/36. Dad died on 27/12/ 94. Therefore they were married 58 nearly 59 years.) [...] Eight or nine Christmases ago I buried my father. My two brothers asked if I - the professional clergyperson - would offer the eulogy at his funeral. That was a difficult ask, because, well, I didn't know my father. Never had. When I was a young teenager I despised him. I was reading a book a day back then, and I would occasionally be silly enough to ask him a question - only to be told 'Get your head out of those books, Rowland, they're giving you wrong ideas!' As a mid-teen (fortunately) I made a conscious decision to forgive him, and accept him, even if he was the most uncreative, boring person I knew. Occasionally since then I tried to get close to him, especially when in his 60s he had a psychotic breakdown, but, no, he responded with 'Don't ask those personal questions, Rowland.' [...] When I was preparing the eulogy, and with a blank page in front of me after many hours of thinking about him, I phoned some of his old friends. 'What would you say?' I asked them. Their consensus: 'Well, to be honest Rowland, your dad probably lived the last sixty years of his life without welcoming a new idea. He got the same train from Mortdale or Oatley to the city (of Sydney) every day, moved paper across the face of the earth for the government, and got the same train home again. He didn't have to think on his job, or in our church' ".
Albert Reginald Croucher was the third great grandson of George.
Leichhardt is just north of Petersham and is 5 miles WSW of Sydney and Woronora is 10 miles south of Sydney.
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