Birth: June-July 1841 Old Kiln, Churt, Surrey, UK
Father: Charles Croucher 1790-1843
Mother: Charlotte Shrub 1801-1895
Christening: 25 July 1841 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 3 March 1866, St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey
Husband: Henry Matthews 1838-1914
Death: October 1927 Twyford Villa, Jumps Road, Churt, Surrey, UK
Buried: 14 October 1927 St John the Evangelist, Churt, Surrey, UK
Matthew Henry Croucher (Henry Matthews) 1861-1955
Alice Matthews [Hedges] 1866-a1921
Rosa (Rose) Matthews (Mathews) [Humphreys] 1867-1939
Albert Matthews 1869-a1901
William Matthews 1870-1963
Alfred Matthews 1872-1955
Alan (Allan) Matthews 1875-1954
Edith Mary Matthews 1877-1961
Birth of Clara Croucher in FreeBMD in July-September 1841 in Farnham (4 130). She was born in Lower Churt from the 1841 census, probably at Old Kiln.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Clara Croacher (sic) baptised 25 Juuly 1841 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Charles and Charlotte Croacher.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1917 for Clara Croacher (sic - in the index, Croucher on the original) baptised 25 July 1841 at Frensham St Mary parents Charles and Charlotte Croacher. "Page 145 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1841 [...] July 25th No. 1159 Clara [parents] Charles [a] Potter & Charlotte Croucher [of] Frensham".
Her father died on 22 December 1843 in Churt.
In the 1851 census as Clara Croucher aged 10, and living with her widowed mother (Charlotte), two brothers (John and Stephen) and a visitor (James Thomson aged 10 months and born in Kingslar, Surrey) in Lower Churt, Frensham Tything of Churt, Surrey (this was probably Squirrels).
A Henry Croucher and Henry Matthews were registered in January-March 1861 in Farnham, and a Matthew Henry Croucher was baptised on 10 March 1861, mother Clara Croucher a spinster of Churt. He changed his name to Henry Matthews before he was 20.
Clara Croucher and Harry Matthews were witnesses at the marriage of her brother John and Elizabeth Baker in Frensham in 1859.
Entry in the 1861 census for Clare (sic - on the original) Croucher, aged 19, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with her widowed mother, and son (Mathew H Croucher) in Churt, Frensham.
Marriage of Clara Croucher and Henry Matthews in FreeBMD in January-March 1866 in the Farnham (2A 81).
Entry for the marriage of Clara Croucher and Henry Matthews in the IGI on 3 March 1866 in Frensham, Surrey. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of Clara Croucher aged 25, father Charles Croucher, and Henry Matthews on 3 March 1866 at Frensham St Mary, "Page 158 [...] 1866 Marriage solemnized after Banns in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey [No.] 316 March 3 Henry Matthews [aged] 26 [a] Bachelor [and] Labourer [of] Frensham [father] Charles Matthews [a] Publican, [and] Clara Courcher [aged] 25 [a] Spinster [of] Frensham [father] Charles Croucher [a] Potter. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church [...] in the Presence of us William Collins [and] Jane Collins".
Her daughter was registered in July-September 1866 in Farnham, and baptised on 2 September 1866 at St Mary the Virgin, Frensham when they were living in Churt.
Her daughter was registered in October-December 1867 in Farnham as Rose Matthews and baptised on 22 December 1867 with the name Rosa Mathews at St Mary the Virgin, Frensham.
Her son was April-June 1869 in Farnham and baptised on 23 May 1869 at St St John the Evangelist, Churt when they were living at Squirrels/Hale House, Churt.
Her son born on 23 September 1870 and baptised 6 November 1870 at St John the Evangelist, Churt when they were living at Squirrels/Hale House, Churt.
In the 1871 census as Clara Matthews aged 29, born in Churton (sic - in the index, Churt on the original), Surreey, and living with her husband (Henry), three sons (Albert, Henry and William) and two daughters (Alice and Rose) at an unnamed address two houses from the Crossways P.H.Churt, Frensham, Surrey, and next door to Charlotte Croucher (her mother) so this must be Squirrels/Hale House.
Her son was born on 14 July 1872, registered in July-September 1872 in Farnham, and baptised on 11 August 1872 at St John the Evangelist, Churt when they were living at Squirrels/Hale House, Churt.
Her son was born 30 March 1875, registered in April-June 1875 in Farnham, and baptised 2 May 1875 at St John the Evangelist, Churt when they were living at Squirrels/Hale House, Churt.
Her daughter was born 27 May 1877, registered in April-June 1877 in Farnham, and baptised on 8 July 1877 at St John the Evangelist, Churt when they were living at Squirrels/Hale House, Churt.
In the 1881 census as Clara Matthews aged 39 born in Churt, Surrey, and living with her husband (Henry) and four sons (Albert, Alfred, Allan and William) and two daughters (Edith and Rose) at Hale House Farm, Churt, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1891 census as Clara Matthews aged 49, born in Churt, and living with her husband (Henry), two sons (Alfred and Allan) and a daughter (Edith Mary) at Squirrels Farm, Churt, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as Clara Matthews aged 59, born in Churt, and living with her husband (Henry), son (Allan), daughter (Edith) and granddaughter (Rosalina - daughter of Alfred) at Hale House, Churt, Surrey. Alfred and his family were living at Squirrels Farm (next door).
According to my father's records Henry Matthews was living at Twyford Villa, Jumps Road in about 1908.
In the 1911 census as Clara Matthews aged 69, born in Churt, Surrey, married for 49 years with eight children, one having died, and living with her husband (Henry), son (Henry), two daughters (Clara and Edith) and a granddaughter (Rose - daughter of Alfred) in seven rooms at Twyford Villa, Churt, Surrey.
Her husband died at Twyford Villa, Churt and was buried at St John the Evangelist, Churt, on 20 December 1914.
In the 1921 census as Clara Matthews born in Churt, Surrey in 1841 and living with Henry Matthews (son?), Edith Mary Matthews (daughter?) and Rose Matthews (granddaughter?) in Farnham, Surrey.
Death of Clara Matthews in FreeBMD in October-December 1927 aged 86 in Farnham (2A 211).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1997 for Clara Matthews buried 14 October 1927 aged 86 at St John the Evangelist, Churt, Surrey. "Page 56 Burials in the Parish of Churt in the County of Surrey in the Year 1927 [...] Clara Matthews No. 448 [of] Twyford Villa, Churt [on] October Fourteen 1927 [aged] Eighty Six Years".
There are sixty one entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Clara Croucher.Note that Churt was a tithing of Frensham until it became a parish in 1865 although the Church was not consecrated until 1868.
Hale House dates to before 1572, and included a large amount of land dating back to the 13th century. It was owned by The Queens College, Oxford in the late 1600s. (P. Brooks Churt: A Medieval Landscape).
Clara Croucher was my great grandaunt. Her husband was the brother of the husband of her half-sister Elizabeth.
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