Birth: January-March 1876 Binsted, Hampshire, UK
Father: William Croucher 1843-1916
Mother: Alice Burningham 1846-1917
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 12 June 1895 St James, Rowledge, Hampshire, UK
Husband: Martin Joseph Skelton (Shilton, Skilton) 1874-a1898
Death: January 1900 Rowledge, Hampshire, UK
Burial: 9 January 1900 St James, Rowledge, Hampshire, UK
Alfred George Skelton (Skilton) 1895-a1911
Frederick Thomas M Skilton 1896-a1911
Hilda Alice L Skilton 1898-a1901
Birth of Agnes Ann Croucher in FreeBMD in January-March 1876 in Alton (2c 175). (Note that there were two Agnes Crouchers born in Binsted in the same year, both with the father William Croucher!)
In the 1881 census as Agnes A Croucher, aged 5, born in Binsted, and living with her parents (William and Allice), two brothers (Walter and William) and two sisters (Alice and Emily J) at Grooms Farm Cottage, Kingsley.
In the 1891 census as Agnes A Croucher aged 17, born in Kingsley, Hampshire, and employed as a housemaid and living with Alice S Norris (aged 40, born in Godalming, single and employed as principal of the school), Jemima L Greaves (aged 24, born in Plaistow, Essex, single, in the index as a daughter but 'head' in original, and employed as a school governess), Emily B L Watmough (aged 20, born in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, single and employed as a school governess), a cook (Annie Coles, aged 21, born in Reading, Berkshire, and single) and 7 pupils aged 7 to 17 at Eastholme, 4 Cambridge Place, East Street, Farnham, Surrey.
Marriage of Agnes Annie Croucher and Martin Joseph Shilton in FreeBMD in Alton in April-June 1895 (2c 342).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Marriages, 1754-1937 for Agnes Annie Croucher aged 20, father William Croucher, and Martin Joseph Shilton on 12 June 1895 at Rowledge St James. "Page 60 1895 Marriage solemnized at St James Church in the Parish of Rowledge in the County of Southampton. [No.] 119 June 12th 1895 Martin Joseph Shilton [aged 21 [a] Bachelor [and] Brickmaker [of] Rowledge [father] Martin Shilton [a] Brickmaker [and] Agnes Annie Croucher [aged] 20 [a] Spinster [of] Rowledge father] William Croucher [a] Labourer. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us William Croucher [and] Alice Croucher".
Her first son was registered in 1895 with surname Skelton in Farnham, and baptised on 18 August 1895 with surname Skilton at St James Rowledge, her second son was registered in Farnham in 1896 with surbname Skilton, , and her daughter was registered in 1898 in Farnham with surname Skilton but not baptised till 31 May 1903.
Death of Agnes Annie Skilton in FreeBMD in Alton in January-March 1900 aged 24 in Alton (2c 153).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1997 for Agnes Annie Skilton buried 9 January 1900 aged 24 in St James, Rowledge. "Page 32 Burials in the Parish of St James Rowledge in the County of Southampton in the year One thousand eight hundred and ninety nine - nineteen hundred [...] Agnes Annie Skelton No. 256 [of] Rowledge [on] January 9th 1900 [aged] 24".
Cherrese Kingsley has an entry in RootsWeb for Agnes Ann Croucher born in 1876 in Binstead, Hampshire, parents William Croucher and Alice Burningham.
There are thirty six entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Agnes Ann Croucher.
Note that St James Rowledge was the ecclesiastical parish but Binsted civil parish, the Church and a few houses are in Hampshire but the majority is in Surrey.
Agnes Ann Croucher was the grand neice of Moses Othen, husband of Ellen Shrubb, my first cousin three times removed.
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