Birth: 3 May 1867 Medway, Kent, UK
Father: Alban (Albert) Thomas Croucher 1833-1902
Mother: Mary Ann Kemsley 1829-1905
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: January-March 1941 Chelsea, London, UK
None known
Birth of Charles Henry Croucher in FreeBMD in April-June 1867 in Medway (2A 444).
His sister was born on 18 March 1869 in Chatham and registered in April-June 1869 in Medway
In the 1871 census as Charles H Crouch (sic - on the original) aged 3, born in Chatham, Kent, and living with his parents (Alban A and Mary A), two brothers (Alban S and Frederick W), two sisters (Ada and Ellen S) and a boader (Frederick W - uncle) at Chatham Hill, Chatham, Kent.
His sister was born on 1 December 1871 in Chatham and registered in January-March 1872 in Medway.
In the 1881 census as Charles Crouch (sic - on the original) aged 13, born in Chatham, Kent, and living with his parents (Albion Thomas and Mary Ann), two brothers (Frederick and Thomas) and three sisters (Ada Mary, Ellen Sarah, and Levena) at 258 New Road, Chatham, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Household Cavalry Records of Service, 1799-1920 for Charles Henry Croucher born in Chatham, Kent, single and enlisted on 1 March 1887 at Regents Park Barracks as 1543.
Entry in Ancestry All UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admissions and Discharges, 1715-1925 for Charles Henry Croucher born cira 1868 in Chatham, No. 1543 2nd Life Guards, and discharged on 12 March 1908 aged 40 and pensioned from 5 March 1908.
I cannot locate him in the 1911 census.
Four entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 and another four in All Westminster, London, England, Electoral Registers, 1902-1970 for Charles Henry Crouccher address 7 Exchange Court WC2 (Corps pf Commisionaires), Covent Garden, St Martin in the Fields. Between twelve and twenty other men lived at the same address.
In the 1921 census as Charles Henry Croucher aged 54 years 7 months, born in Chatham, Kent, single, a hall porter at Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, Kensington, and living with seventeen others at Corps of Commissionaires, Exchange Court, 419 Strand, WC, St Paul Covent Garden, London, Middlesex.
Twelve entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 and another seventeen in All Westminster, London, England, Electoral Registers, 1902-1970 for Charles Henry Croucher address 7 Exchange Court WC2 (Corps pf Commisionaires), Covent Garden, Westminster from 1922 to 1939. Between twelve and twenty other men lived at the same address.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Charles Croucher born 3 May 1867, single, a commissionaire, and living with 68 others at Corps of Commissionaire, 419a Strand, City of Westminster, London.
Death of Charles H Croucher in FreeBMD in January-March 1941 aged 73 in Chelsea (1A 545).
There are eighteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Charles Henry Croucher.
The Corps of Commissionaires refers to a movement in Commonwealth countries of societies that provide meaningful employment for veterans of the armed services and in the UK is now known as Corps Security, the oldest security company in the world.
Charles Henry Croucher was the first cousin of David Reginald Croucher, husband of Patricia Ann Ashford, my half third cousin once removed.
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