Birth: 10 August 1922 Worthenbury, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Father: Roberts (Robert) Valentine 1900-1991
Mother: Mary (Maisie) Anne Meaney 1897-1983
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Nanette (Nannette) Coral ? c1926-a1950
Death: 2nd January 1989 Stplehurst, Kent, UK
Buried: All Saints, Staplehurst, Kent, UK
None known
Birth of William R Croucher, mother's maiden name Meaney, in FreeBMD in July-September 1922 in Ellesmere (6A 1120). I believe his parents were living with his grandparents in Worthenbury, Flintshire, Wales at the time.
Entry in Ancestry UK, London Gazettes World War II Military Notices, 1939-1945 for William Reginald Croucher "Supplement to the London Gazette, 5 May 1944 [page] 251 Regular Army Emergency Commisions [...] [page] 2053 Royal Army Sevice Corps 25th May, 1944 - 14435300 William Reginald Croucher (314331)."
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for William Reginald Croucher aged 27, a chemist of 16 Onslow Road, New Ferry, Birkenhead, departed 2 June 1950 on Cathage, P and O from Southampton, accompanied by Nannette Coral Croucher (wife?) for India.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for William Reginald Croucher, born 10 August 1922, in January 1989 in Tunbridge Wells (16 2142).
Entry in Stablehurst Society
Staplehurst in Kent [...] Survey of Staplehurst Churchyard 1980-1983, Updated 1999, Revised 2009 [..]
Graves to the East of the privet hedge[...] 90M. Headstone, stone, a cross, leaves and a rose as imagery, good condition.
"In loving memory/of/William Reginald/Croucher/who died 2nd January 1989/aged 66/ Also of Robert Valentine/Croucher/who died 17th July 1991/aged 91/At rest [...] [page] 106".
There are two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Reginald Croucher.
I cannot identify his wife. They may have married in India.
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Mrs Nanette Coral Croucher aged 20, arrived on 22 May 1947 at Southampton from Bombay, India on Empire Trooper, Ministry of Transport, address Cherry Cottage, Worthanbury, Wrexham, Denbighshire.
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for Nannette (sic - on the original) Coral Croucher aged 23, address 16 Onslow Road, New Ferry, Birkenhead, departed Southampton on 2 June 1950 for Bombay, India on Carthage, P and O, accompanied by William Reginald Croucher (husband?).
Entry in Ancestry Sutton, Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1931-1970 for Nanette Croucher address Top Floor, 14 Maldon Road, Wallington, Mitcham in 1957 and 1958, other occupants Louisa Spada and another family in 1958.
Entry in Ancestry West Sussex, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1963 for Nanette Croucher address 254 Ifield Drive, Crawley from 1962 to 1963.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 for MS Nanette C Croucher born 1924-1926, address 254 Ifield Drive RH11 0EP, Crawley, West Sussex from 2003 to 2010.
Two entries in 192.com for Nanette C Croucher in the Electoral Roll 2002-13 living in Crawley, West Sussex RH11, other occupant Luisa Spada, and in the Electoral Roll 2016-23 living in Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11, other occupant Leslie W Ridings.
Luisa Spada was born 8 Dec 1921 and died 13 June 2015 in Crawley, West Sussex RH11
William Reginald Croucher was my second cousin.
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