Birth: 1760 Haslemere, Surrey, UK
Father: William Morley 1713-1798
Mother: Betty (Elizabeth) Baigent (Bagent) 1719-1780
Christening: 17 July 1760 St Bartholomew, Haslemere, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 24 September 1782 St Bartholomew, Haslemere, Surrey, UK
Husband: John Croucher 1752-1812
Death: June 1813 Frensham, Surrey, UK
Burial: 4 June 1813 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
William Croucher 1783
Ann Croucher 1784
Mary Croucher 1787
John Croucher 1789
Charles Croucher 1790-1843
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Ann Morley baptised 17 July 1760 in Haslemere, Surrey, parents Wm and Betty Morley.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Ann Morley baptised 17 July 1760 at Haslemere, St Bartholomew, parents Wm and Betty Morley. "1760 [...] Ann Daughter of Wm and Betty Morley July 17".
Entry in Ancestry London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 for Ann Morley of Haslemere, St Bartholomew and John Croucher of Frensham St Mary on 24 September 1782. "Commiffary of Surrey} Appeared perfonally John Croucher and made oath, that he is of Frensham in the County of Surrey & Diocese of Winchester of the age of twenty one years & upwards and intendeth to marry with Ann Morley of the parish of Haslemere in the said County of Surrey & Diocese of Winchester Spinster of the Age of twenty one years & upwards and that he knoweth of no lawful Impediment, by reafon of any Pre-Contract, Affinity, or any other lawful Means whatfoever, to hinder the faid intended Marriage, and prayed a Licence to folemnize the fame in the Parish Church of Haslemere aforesaid and further made Oath, that the ufual Place of Abode of him the said John Croucher hath been in the faid Parifh of Frensham for the Space of four weeks paft. Sworn before me [...] Sep 24 1782 [He made his mark]."
There is a much longer version at Ancestry London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 for Ann Morley and John Croucher at Frensham St Mary. "Know all Men by thefe Prefents, That We John Croucher of the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey Potter & Jon Doe aforesaid are holden and firmly bound to the Right Rev. Father in God Brownlea by Divine Permiffon, Bifhop of Winten [Winton was in the Deanery of Bournemouth] in the Sum of two Hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain [...] Dated the twenty fourth Day of September in the Year of our Lord, one Thoufand Seven Humdred and Eighty one [...] the above bounds John Croucher Batchelor & Ann Morley Spinster [he made his mark].
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Ann Morley and John Croucher on 24 September 1782 in Haslemere, Surrey.
Entry in the West Surrey Family History Society Surrey Marriage Index for Ann Morley and John Croucher of Frensham on 24 September 1782 in Haslemere by licence.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records "154 24 Sep 1782 L. John Croucher + of Frensham & Ann Morley +." in Banns. (Bann) Surrey: Haslemere - Parish Registers, 1573-1812.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Ann Morley and John Croucher on 24 September 1782 in Haslemere, Surrey.
Her children were baptised in Frensham, but with no mother's name but I suspect the family lived in Churt which was part of Frensham Parish, the 1787 Land Tax records indicating they were then living in Pitfold which is just north of Shottermill.
Entry in West Surrey Family History Society Surrey Burial Index for Ann Croucher on 4 June 1813 aged 53 in Frensham.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Burials, 1813-1987 for Ann Croucher on 4 June 1813 at Frensham, St Mary. "Burials in the Parifh of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1813 [...] Ann Croucher No. 6 of Frensham on June 4th aged 53 years".
There are fiftyone entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Ann Morley.
Ann Morley was my third great grandmother.
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