Birth: July-August 1848 Binsted, Hampshire, UK
Father: Henry Croucher 1811-1854
Mother: Sarah Marchant (Merchant) [Simpson] 1814-1880
Christening: 27 August 1848 Binsted, Hampshire, UK
Marriage: 22 April 1877 Binsted, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Harriett Grover 1850-1902
Marriage: January-March 1917 Chertsey, London, UK
Wife: Emma Farminer [Hersey, Turner] 1880-1965
Death: October-December 1934 Aldershot, Hampshire, UK
By Harriett
William Croucher 1880-1894
Leonard Croucher 1882-1949/53
Henry (Herbert) Croucher 1884-1901
Hetty (Etty) May Croucher [Jarrad] 1888-1967
Rupert Cecil Albert Croucher 1890-a1928
Birth of William Croucher in FreeBMD in July-September 1848 in Alton (7 16).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for William Croucher baptised 27 August 1848 at Binsted near Alton, Hampshire, parents Henry and Sarah Croucher.
In the 1851 census as William Croucher aged 2, born in Binsted, Hampshire, and living with his parents (William and Sarah Crouche (sic - on the original)), brother (Henry) and two sisters (Jane and Martha) in Binsted, Hampshire.
His sister was baptised on 2 January 1853 in Binsted, his father died in October-December 1854 in Binsted and his mother married William Simpson on 20 October 1860 in Binsted.
In the 1861 census as William Chrousker (sic - Chroucher on the original) aged 12, born in Binsted, Hampshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with his stepfather (William Simpson), mother (Sarah), sister (Harriett), stepfather's son (John) and a lodger (Henry Gruwell - more like Gruncle on the original) aged 17, born in Shalden, Hampshire, single and a cater) at South Hay Farm. Binsted, Hampshire.
Marriage of William Croucher and Harriett Grover in FreeBMD in April-June 1877 in Alton (2C 275).
Entry in Ancestry Hampshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for the marriage of William Croucher and Harriett Grover on 22 April 1877 in Binsted, Hampshire. "Page 98 The Year 1877 [...] No. 489 Banns of Marriage between William Croucher Harriett Grover both of this parish were publifhed on the Three Sundays underwritten; That is to fay, On Sunday the 11th Feb [...] On Sunday the 118th Feb [...] On Sunday the 25th Feb [...] married. 22 April. 1877".
His son was born in April-June 1880 at Hoobrook Police Station, Stone.
In the 1881 census aged 32, born in Brinsted (Binsted?), Hampshire, employed as a Police Constable and living with his wife and son at Hoobrook Police Station, Stone, Worcester.
His second son was born in Stone circa 1882, his third son was born in Hagley, Worcestershire in 1885, and his daughter and son in Aldershot in 1888 and 1890.
In the 1891 census as William Croucher aged 42, born in Binstead (sic), Hampshire, an agent for ?, and living with his wife (Harriett), five sons (Harry, Herbert, Leonard, Rupert C A and William) two daughters (Ada and Etty May) in Victoria Road, Aldershot, Hampshire.
In the 1901 census as William Croucher aged 52, born in Bowstead (sic), Hampshire, a furniture merchant and employer working from home, and living with his wife (Harriet), son (Rupert Cecil) and daughter (Hetty May) at 90 Victoria Road, Aldershot, Hampshire.
His wife died in Alton in 1902.
In the 1911 census as William Crowcher (sic - in the index, Croucher on the original) aged 62, female (sic - in the index, male on the original), born in Binsted, Hampshire, widowed, and a farm labourer out of work and living with his son (Cecil Rupert) both boarding with David Hare (aged 50, born in Bourne, Lincolnshire and a carter for the town council), and his wife (Emma aged 60, born in Willingham, Cambridgeshire, married for 20 years with no children) in four rooms at 2 Spring Gardens, Castle Street, Guildford, Surrey.
Entry in his son's (Rubert Albert Cecil Croucher) Army World War I Pension Record states his father was living at 5 Springfield Road, Guildford on 19 September 1914.
His daughter Hetty May married Henry James Jarrad on 30 October 1915 when her father was a traveller.
Marriage of William Croucher and Emma Hersey in FreeBMD in January-March 1917 in Chertsey (2A 87).
In the 1921 census as William Croucher born in Hampshire in 1848 and living with Cecil Croucher (son?), Emma Croucher (wife?), and Contance and Ruth Hersey (stepdaughters?) in Headley, Neatham, Alton, Hampshire.
Death of William Croucher in FreeBMD in October-December 1934 aged 86 in Aldershot (2C 329).
There are 113 entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Croucher.
William Croucher was the second great grandson of William Croucher, and also nephew of Edmund Croucher, husband of Eliza Othen, sister of Moses Othen, husband of Ellen Shrubb, my first cousin three times removed.
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