William Edmund Croucher (1916-1996)

Dates

Birth: 11 January 1916 Farnham, Surrey, UK
Father: Henry William Croucher 1880-a1896
Mother: Amy Florence Towner 1846-1917

Christening: 26 March 1916 Holy Trinity, Guildford, Surrey

Marriage: October-December 193 Alton, Surrey, UK
Wife: Rosina Lillian Grace Baggs 1918-1967

Death: February 1996 NW Surrey, UK
Buried: St James, Rowledge, Waverley, Surrey, UK

Children

Edmund C Croucher 1941
Dorothy M Croucher [Woods] 1945-a1970
Philip W Croucher 1947-a1980

Notes

Birth of William E Croucher, mother's maiden name Towner, in FreeBMD in January-March 1916 in Farnham (2a 277).

Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1917 for William Edmund Croucher baptised 26 March 1916 at Guildford, Holy Trinity, parents William Henry and Amy Florence Croucher.

His father, William Henry Croucher PTE 35412 2 Bn Essex Regt, parents William and Alice of Farnham, Surrey, husband of Amy Florence Croucher of 2 Oak Cottages, Heath End, Farnham, Surrey, died of sickness while a Prisoner of War on 29 June 1918 aged 39, and was buried at Braine-le-Comte Communal Cemetery, Braine-le-Comte, Arrondissement de Soignies, Hainaut, Belgium.

In the 1921 census as William Edmund Croucher born in Surrey in 1916, and living in Farnham, Surrey.

Three entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for William Edmund Croucher address 22 Coppice Cottages, Weybourne, Hale and Badshot, Farnham from 1937 to 1939, other occupants Amy Florence Croucher (widowed mother?) and Ethel May Croucher (sister?)

In the 1939 Register as William E Croucher born 11 January 1916, single, a van driver distribution of food, and living with Amy T Croucher (mother?) and Ethel M Croucher (sister?) at 22 Coppice Cottages, Weybourne Lane, Farnham, Surrey Farnham, Surrey.

Marriage of William E Croucher and Rosina L G Baggs in FreeBMD in October-December 1939 in Alton (2c 882).

His son was born in Alton in 1941 and son and daughter in SW SUrret in 1945 and 1947.

His wife died in Binsted, Hampshire on 24 October 1967.

Entry in the Register of Deaths for William Edmund Croucher born 11 January 1916, in February 1996 in Surrey North-western (29A 7582A 237)

Entry in FindaGrave for William Croucher died 1996 and buried in St James, Rowledge, Waverley, Surrey. Rosina Lillian Grace Croucher is buried in the same grave. "?/A Loyal Wife and Mother/Rosina Lillian Grace/Croucher/Died 24 October 1967/Aged 69 Years/Till We Meet Again/Husband and Father/William Croucher/1919-1996". The age for his wife should be 49.

There are twelve entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Edmund Croucher.

Relationship

William Edmund Croucher was the great grand nephew of Moses Othen, husband of Ellen Shrubb, my first cousin three times removed.

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