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Thomas James Crouch
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Description area
Dates of existence
1805 - 1890)
History
Thomas James Crouch (1805 - 1890) was born in London, arrived in Hobart in 1825 and was Sheriff's clerk and in 1836 was appointed Under-Sheriff. He was a prominent Methodist (although originally Anglican) and also organised the Temperance Alliance. He married Sarah Rothwell at St David's Cathedral in 1832. Sarah became a Quaker after the Quaker missionaries James Backhouse and G. VI. Walker lodged with them. There
were several children, including Ann, who married R.W.G. Shoobridge in 1871, Mary who married R. S. Caseley a Wesleyan minister in South Australia, Thomas James who became an architect and designed Melbourne G.P.O., and George Stanton, farmer, newspaper proprietor and auctioneer, who died in 1914.