Birth: 1833 Crookham, Hampshire, UK
Father: James Croucher 1797-1844
Mother: Martha Turner 1803-1851/61
Christening: 6 June 1833 All Saints, Crondall, Hampshire, UK
Marriage: unknown
Wife: Bridget ? b1848-1875/81
Death: July-September 1902 Shoreditch, London, UK
Julia Maria Croucher [Darling] 1868-1894
Grace Croucher [Hoggart] 1872-1940
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for William Croucher baptised 6 June 1833 in Crondall, Hampshire, parents James and Martha Croucher.
Entry in Ancestry Hampshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1921 for William Croucher on 6 June 1833 in Crondall, parents James and Martha Croucher. "Page 171 2 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Crondall in the County of Southampton in the Year 1833 [...] June 6th No. 1372 William [parents] James [a] Shopkeeper & Martha Croucher [of] Crookham".
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1921 for William Croucher baptised 6 June 1833 at All Saints, Crondall, parents James and Martha Croucher. "Page 172 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Crondall in the County of Southampton in the Year 1833 [...] June 6th No. 1372 William [parents] James [a] Shopkeeper & Martha Croucher [of] Crookham".
His sister was baptised on 7 June 1835 at All Saints, Crondall when they were living in Crookham.
His sister was baptised on 22 March 1836 at All Saints, Crondall when they were living in Crookham.
His sister was registered in July-September 1838 in Hartley Wintney and baptised on 2 September 1838 at All Saints, Crondall when they were living in Crookham.
In the 1841 census as William Coucher (sic - on the original) aged 8, born in Surrey (sic - on the original) and living with James and Marther Coucher (parents?), Charles, James and John Coucher (brothers?), and Ann, Jane, Marcy and Marther Coucher (sisters?) at Strem, Elstead. However the next entry in Highcomb Bottom which is in the Devils Punch Bowl.
His brother was baptised on 8 May 1841 at St Michael & All Angels, Thursley, when they were living when they were living at The Stream, Elstead.
His father was buried on 16 June 1844 at St James, Elstead, and his mother and family moved back to Crookham.
In the 1851 census as William Cravcher (sic - in the index, original illegible) aged 19, born in Crondall, single, and a servant living with James Lavie (aged 47, born in Rochester Kent and single), his brother (A Lavier aged 45, born in Rochester, Kent and single), two sisters (Amelia Lavier aged 43, born in Watford, Hertfordshire, and E Lavier born in Fra(nce) Brit Subj, both single), nephew (M G Lavier aged 1 and born in India), grand uncle (Henry Seimore (Sissmore) aged 94, born in Portsmouth, single and keeper of (illegible)), and five other servants (Sarah Short aged 45, born in London, and widowed, Elizabeth Dentham (Ventham?) aged 31, born in Whiton, Hampshire, and single, Jane Lader aged 28, born in Littleton, Hampshire, and single, Ellen Bene aged 43, born in Fareham, Hampshire and single, and John Blanchard aged 61, born in Hambledon, Hampshire and widowed) in Southgate Street, Winchester St Thomas, Hampshire.
In the 1861 census as William Croucher aged 27, born in Crookham, Hampshire, married and a footman living with James Samuel (aged 37, born in Scotland and a civil engineer), his wife (Agnes Anne aged 34 and born in Fottenham (Tottenham), Middlesex), three visitors (Arthur Challis Hennard aged 29, born in St. Johns, London, single and an iron master, Edward Loos aged 47, born in Paris, married and a civil engineer, and Emila Loos aged 38, born in Vogas, France and married), and three other servants (Henry Raven aged 26, born in Marylebone, London, married and a groom, Sarah Allen aged 33, born in Ware, Hertfordshire, single and a cook, and Margaret Morris aged 24, born in Newport, Shropshire, single and a housemaid) at Willougby House, Lawrie Park, Beckenham, Kent.
His daughter was registered in October-December 1868 in Pancras.
In the 1871 census as William Croucher aged 34, born in Crookham, Hampshire, a collar cutter and living with his wife (Bridget) and daughter (Julia) at 36 New Gloucester Street, Hoxtton Old Town, Shoreditch, London. Two other families were living at the same address.
81 His daughter was born on 10 Feb 1872 in St Luke but I cannot locate a registration.
In the 1881 censu as William Croucher aged 48, born in Crondall, Hants, widowed, a linen collar cutter, and living with his two daughters (Grace and Julia) and neice (Sarah - daughter of John) with his brother-in-law Wm and Sarah Agate at 118 Gladstone Buildings St Leonard, Shoreditch, London.
In the 1891 census as William Rockers (original illegible) aged 57, born in Crookham, Hampshire, widowed, a shirt collar cutter, and living with his two daughters (Ada and Grace) and granddaughter (Julia Hawman) together with Wm and Sarah Agate in four rooms at 68 Gladstone Bldgs, Shoreditch, London.
in the 1901 census as Williamc (sic - in the index, William on the original) Croucher aged 68, born in Farnham, Surrey, widowed, a shirt collar cutter, and living with his brother-in-law and sister (William H and Sarah Agate) and neice (Mary Newman) in three rooms at 68 Gladstone Bldgs, Shoreditch, London.
Death of William Croucher in FreeBMD in July-September 1902 in Shoreditch (1C 82).
There are twenty four entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Croucher.
I cannot locate any informmation regarding his wife except that in the 1861 census he is married but no entry for his wife, in the 1871 census she was born in 1848 in Cripplegate, London, and in 1881 he was widdowed.
William Croucher was my fourth cousin three times removed.
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