Birth: Circa 1838 St Jaques, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Father: William Croucher 1810-a1871
Mother: Elizabeth Robert c1805-1872
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 8 November 1867 Wellington, New Zealand
Wife: Ellen Martin 1834-1913
Death: 19 May 1894 Sanson, Manawatu, New Zealnad
Elizabeth Croucher [Ford] 1868-1938
William John Croucher 1871-1947
Helen Croucher 1874-1933
James Melville Croucher 1878-1958
In the 1841 Census as William Cravcher (sic - in the index, correct on the original) aged 3, born in Guernsey, Channel Islands, and living with William and Elizabeth (parents?), William (brother?) and Elizabeth (sister?) at St Jaques, St Peter Port, Guernsey.
In the 1851 census as William Croucher aged 14, born in St Pters P, Guernsey, and living with his mother (Elizabeth), two brothers (James and John), and two sisters (Elizabeth and Matilda) at Doyle Road, St Peter Port, Guernsey.
In the 1861 census as William A Croucher aged 20, born in St. Peter Port, single, a gardener, and living with his parents (William and Elizabeth), brother (John) and two sisters (Ann st and Matilel F) at 4 Rue a l'Or Lane, St Peters Port, Guernsey.
Entry in Ancestry New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937 for William Arthur Croucher and Ellen Martin in 1867.
There are eleven entries in Ancestry New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 for William Arthur Croucher addresses household, Wellington from 1871 to 1877, and freehold in Manawatu changing to Sanson Town in 1880, Foxton changing to Palmerston in 1890, changing to Wellington in 1894, changing to Manawatu in 1896, and to Manawatu-Wanganui from 1880 to 1896, other occupants in 1896 Ellen Croucher (widow), Ellen Croucher (same person as her husband had died?), and Elizabeth and Helen Croucher (daughters?).
Entry in Ancestry New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1966 for William Arthur Croucher in April-June 1894 in Sanson, Wellington, New Zealand (817).
Entry in Ancestry New Zealand, Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 for William Arthur Croucher died 19 May 1894 aged 53 in Sanson, Manawatu, Horowhenua. "Headstones : Sanson Cemetery [...] [No.] 7 Sacred to the memory of William Arthur Croucher born at Guernsey, died 19 May 1894 aged 53; also Ellen Croucher died 27th May 1913; also Helen daughter of the above, died 31st August 1933 aged 59 years (Helyer, Wellington)".
There are six entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William A Croucher and another ten for William Arthur Croucher, the latter adding the New Zealand connection including the marriage on November 8 by the Rev JS Muir of Mr William Arthur Croucher to Miss Ellen Martin (1834-1913), both of Wellington, his four children, and his death on 19 May 1894 in Sanson, Manawatu, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand, one adding two of the children as William John (1871-1947) and James Mehrlie (1878-1958). However 31 entries give the father of William John as Elijah Edward Hayes Croucher (1832-1873) but also include Helen born a year after Eliah's death in 1873.
Angela Bishop has an entry in RootsWeb WordConnect for William Arthur Croucher born about 1840 in Guernsey, parents William Croucher and Elizabeth Robert.
William Arthur Croucher was the second great grandson of James.
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