Birth: 4 July 1894 73 Bloomfield Road, Mile End Old Town, London, UK
Father: Edward Joseph Dainty 1858-1899
Mother: Sarah Emma Patten 1864-1952
Christening: 29 July 1894 St Paul, Bow Common, Tower Hamlets, London, UK
Marriage: April-June 1918 Billericay, Esssex, UK
Husband: Sidney Herbert Croucher 1891-1969
Death: 27 October 1963 3/5 Brading Avenue, Southsea, Hampshire, UK
Birth of Lilian Maud Dainty in FreeBMD in July-September 1894 in Mile End (1c 476).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 for Lillian Maud Dainty baptised on 29 July 1894 at Bow Common St Paul, Tower Hamlets, parents Edward Joseph and Sarah Emma Dainty. "Page 23 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of [blank] in the County of [blank] in the Year One thousand eight hundred and [blank] [...] 1894 July 29th No. 182 Lillian Maud, parents Edward Joseph, a Medical in Hospital, and Sarah Emma Dainty of 73 Bloomfield Road."
Her father died in Billericay in 1899.
In the 1901 census as Lillian M Dainty aged 6, born in Mile End, London, and living with her widowed mother (Sarah E), brother (Edward J), grandmother *Martha Archer) a boarder (Rose Oliver aged 41, born in Gravesend, Kent, single and an asylum attendent) and a visitor (Edouard H Touzet aged 15, a Foreign Subject born in Boulogne, France) at 8 Globe Terrace, South Weald, Essex.
In the 1911 census as Lilian Maud Dainty aged 16, born in Bow, London, and living with her widowed mother (Sarah Emma), widowed grandmother (Martha Aschard) and a boarder (Henry John Bowtle aged 38, born in Saffron Walden, Essex, widowed, and a french polisher working for an upholsterer) in six rooms at 37 Gresham Road, Shenfield, Brentwood, Essex.
Marriage of Lilian M Dainty and Sidney H Croucher in FreeBMD in April-June 1918 in Billericay (4a 1031)
Entry in Ancestry UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for Lilian Croucher aged 42 of 70 Kensington Road, Portsmouth departed on 15 August 1936 from Southampton on the Rawalpindi, P O S N Company (second class) for Malta, accompanied by Sarah Dainty (mother?).
Entry in Ancestry UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Lilian H (sic - in the index, M on the typed original) Croucher aged 44, address 88 Compton Road, North End, Portsmouth arrived London on 7 October 1938 on the Corfu, P and O Steam Navigation Company Ltd, accompanied by Sidney H Croucher (husband? but entry is crossed out in pencil) from Malta.
Entry in 1939 England and Wales Register for Lilian M Croucher born on 4 July 1894, married, and living at 299 Highbury Grove, Portsmouth, other occupant Sidney H Croucher (husband?)
Death of Lilian M Croucher in FreeBMD in October-December 1963 aged 69 in Portsmouth (6b 475).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Lilian Maude Croucher died 27 October 1963 in Portsmouth, probate 17 December 1963 in London. "Croucher Lilian Maude of 299 Highbury Grove Cosham Portsmouth (wife of Sidney Herbert Croucher) died 27 October 1963 at 3/5 Brading Avenue Southsea Portsmouth Probate London 17 December to the said Sidney Herbert Croucher retired shipwright lieutenant R.N. Effects £:7760 17s."
There are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Lilian Maud Dainty born in July 1894 in Mile End Middlesex, mother Sarah Emma Aschard, her marriage to Sidney Herbert Croucher in Billericay, Essex in July 1918, and her death in Portsmouth, Hampshire in October 1963.
Lillian Maud Dainty was the wife of Sidney Herbert Croucher, uncle of David Reginald Croucher, husband of Patricia Ann Ashford, my half third cousin once removed.
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