Birth: April-June 1847 Reigate, Surrey, UK
Father: George Croucher 1796-1870
Mother: Mary Smith c1804-1877
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 1 April-June 1873 All Saints, Kensington, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Mary Ann Percy 1847-1937
Death: July-September 1913 Willesden, Middlesex, UK
Burial: July? 1913 8 1913 Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK
Edith Laura Croucher [Lewinton] 1871-1954
Charles George Croucher 1874-1900
Emma Jane Croucher [Sedgbeer] 1875-1969
Lydia May Croucher 1876-1971
Percy William Croucher 1879-1917
Albert Henry Croucher 1880-1973
Ethel Mary Croucher [Maddock] 1885-1971
Annie Martha Croucher [Morris] 1887-1944
Abigail Grace Percy Croucher [Schopfer (Edgar)] 1892-1947
Birth of William Croucher in FreeBMD in April-June 1847 in Reigate (4 394).
In the 1851 cenus as William Croucher aged 3, born in Reigate, Surrey, and living with his parents (George and Mary), four brothers (George, Henry, Joseph and Peter) and sister (Lydia) in the Foreign of Reigate, Surrey.
In the 1861 census as William Croucher aged 11, born in Reigate, Surrey, and living with his parents (George and Mary) and two brothers (Henry and Joseph) on Cockshot Hill, Reigate Foreign (A217 just south of Reigate), Surrey.
In the 1871 census as William Croucher aged 23, born in Reigate, Surrey, single, a soldier, and living with some 450 others in The Barracks, Preston, Sussex.
His daughter was born on 5 September 1871 and registered in Alderbury, Wiltshire, and baptised 6 November 1872 in Fisherton Anger, Wiltshire.
Marriage of William Croucher and Mary Ann Percy in FreeBMD in April-June 1873 in Kensington (1A 237).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for the marriage of William Croucher father George Croucher, and Mary Ann Percy on 1 April 1873 at All Saints, Paddington, Norfolk Square, Westminster. "Page 231 [...] 1873 Marriage solemnized at All Saints Church in the Parish of Paddington in the County of Middlesex. [No.] 462 April 1st 1873 William Croucher [of] Full [age] [a] Bachelor [and] Railway Policeman [of] 19 Stanley Street [father] George Croucher [a] Gardener, [and] Mary Ann Percy [of] Full [age] [a] Spinster [of] 19 Stanley Street [father] George Percy [a] Porter. Married in the All Saints Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns".
Entry in Ancestry London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911 for Laura Croucher No 1737 born 5 September 1871, father William Croucher of 95 Golborne Road admitted to Wornington Road School on 18 August 1879 from infants.
In the 1881 census as William Croucher aged 33, born in Reigate, Surrey, a railway signalman and living with his wife (Mary A), three sons (Albert H, Charles G, and Percy W) and three daughters (Edith L, Emma J and Lydia M) at 30 Wornington Gardens, Kensington, London.
Three entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for William Croucher dwelling house 2 rooms basement floor 5s per week, 30 Warnington Gardens, Golborne, Kensington owned by J Temple from 1884 to 1885, and dwelling house 2 rooms basement floor 5s per week, 154 Wornington Road, Golborne, Kensington owned by J Temple in 1889. I assume these were the same location.
In the 1891 census as William Croucher aged 43, born in Reigate, Surrey, a railway signalman, and living with his wife (Mary A), three sons (Albert H, Charles G and Percy W), and five daughters (Annir M, Edith L, Emma J, Ethel M and Lydia M) in three rooms at 134 Wornington Road, Kensington, London. Another four families lived at the same address.
Nine entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for William Croucher dwelling house 2 rooms basement floor over 4s per week, 154 Warnington Road, Golborne, Kensington owned by J Temple from 1891 to 1892, and dwelling house 4 St Ervans Road, Golborne, Kensington from 1894 to 1900.
In the 1901 census as William Foucher (sic) aged 53, born in Reigate, Surrey, a railway signalman (listed in wife's entry) and living with his wife (Mary A), two sons (Albert H and Percy W), and six daughters (Abigai G P, Anne M, Edith L, Emma J, Eshel and Lydia) at 4 Ervans Road, Kensington, London. Two other families lived at the same address.
Five entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for William Croucher dwelling house 58 St Ervans Road, Golborne, Kensington from 1904 to 1908 and 87 Ilbert Street, Queens Park, Chelsea in 1910.
In the 1911 census as William Croucher aged 64, born in Reigate, Surrey, a railway signalman on Great Western Railway, and living with his wife (Mary Ann), son (Percy William), three daughters (Abigal Grace, Annie Martha and Lydia May) and a boarder (Thomas Galpin aged 28, born in Kensington, Middlesex, single and a tailor) in six rooms at 87 Ilbert Street, Queens Park, Paddington W, London.
Three entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for William Croucher dwelling house 87 Ilbert Street, Queens Park, Chelsea from 1911 to 1913.
Death of William Croucher in FreeBMD in July-September 1913 aged 66 in Willesden (3A 212). There is a large railway junction at Willesden so I assume he died at work.
Entry in Deceased Online for William Croucher buried 8 1913 in Kensington and Chelsea, London. The 8 could refer to the day or the month.
There are forty five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Croucher adding he was a Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guardsman, later a signalman on the Great Western Railway.
William Croucher was the second great grandson of Thomas.
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