Birth: 30 October 1890 Reigate, Surrey, UK
Father: Albert Walter Croucher 1890-1970
Mother: Mary Beta Brown 1889-1963
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 1914 Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia
Wife: Mary Beta Brown 1889-1963
Death: 6 September 1970 Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cremation: 8 September 1970 Rookwood Crematorium, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Edith Mary Croucher [Rex] 1915-2005
Birth of Albert Walter Croucher in FreeBMD in October-December 1890 in Reigate (2A 164).
In the 1891 census as Albert W Croucher aged 5 months, born in Reigate, Surrey, and living with his parents (Walter J and Emily J) and sister (Ethel L) at 69 Holmesdale Road, Reigate St Mark, Surrey (this address was shared with another family).
His brother was registered January-March 1892 and baptised on 10 April 1892 at St Mark, Reigate, his five sisters were born 18 August 1893, registered January-March 1895, registered April-June 1897, born 3 July 1898 and registered July-September 1898 and born 23 March 1900, all in Reigate.
In the 1901 census as Albert W Croucher aged 10, born in Reigate and living with his parents (Walter J and Emily J), brother (Frederick C), and five sisters (Doris K, Edith C, Edmund C (Emma C on the original), Ethel A and Evelyn M) at 69 Holmesdale Road, Reigate St Mark, Surrey (this address was shared with a lodger).
His brother was born 8 December 1901, his sister was born in 1903 and registered in January-March 1902, 31 October 1905 and was born 14 August 1908, all in Reigate.
In the 1911 census as Albert Walter Croucher aged 20, born in Reigate, Surrey, single, a valet, and living with his parents (Walter John and Emily Jane), two brothers (Frederick Charles and John Edward), and five sisters (Charlotte Emma, Doris Kathleen, Evelyn Mary, Margaret Ellen, and Olive Maud) in six rooms at 69 Holmesdale Road, Reigate, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry for Albert W Croucher and Mary B Brown in 1914 in Canterbury, New South Wales.
His daughter was born 30 May 1915 in Belmore, Canterbury-Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia.
There are ten entries in Ancestry Australian Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 results for Albert Walter Croucher from 1930 to 1963, address 71 from 1963, Windsor Road, Padstow, Bankstown, Reid, NSW, a bread carter, other occupants Mary Beta Croucher (wife?) except in 1954 and 1968, and Frederick Charles Croucher (brother?) and Daisy Dorothy (sister-in-law) from 1930 to 1943.
His wife died 24 March 1963 in Padstow, Canterbury-Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia and was cremated on 26 March 1963 in Rookwood Crematorium
There are three entries in Ancestry in 1963, address 73 Windsor Road, Padstow, Revesby, Banks, NSW, and no occupation. There is also an entry dated 1980 for Albert Walter Croucher address 83, Windsor Road, Padstow, Revesby, Banks, NSW, a bread carter, other occupants Mary Beta Croucher (wife?) - the first page however is dated 1958.
Entry in Find a Grave for Albert Walter Croucher born 30 October 1890 in Reigate, Surrey, spouse Mary Beta Brown, children Edith Mary Croucher Rex, died 6 September 1970 in Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, cremated 8 September 1970 in Rookwood Crematorium.
Government Gazette of the State OF New South Wales, (Sydney, NSW), Friday, 27th November, 1970, [Issue No. 153] / Page 4836 "Albert Walter Croucher, late of Padstow, N.S.W., retired gentleman, died 6th September, 1970; letters of administration, with the will dated 2nd April, 1963, annexed, were granted on 3rd November, 1970."
There are thirty nine entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Albert Walter Croucher.
The following letter is in Genforum:
Albert Walter Croucher was the fourth great grandson of Thomas.
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