Probably his manor (see his will) of Coprneybury in Layston, Herts is to be found in VCH, and, success, it is said to be in vol 4 which is online. And I could not find Edwintree Hundred or Layston Parish in this volume! However a copy of vol 4 is at: <
http://ia600407.us.archive.org/4/items/cu31924088434463/cu31924088434463.pdf> but this only refers to Corneybury manor in a paragraph on fairs in Laystone, but it does say that Crouches owned it. Corneybury is in fact in Wyddial, though it seems that Wyddial was created in 1883 out of detached portions of Layston.
The section on Layston, pp. 77-88, does have a paragraph or two on Alswick Hall which John Crouch also owned and refers to in his will. For much of the later middle ages it was held by the Prior of Holy Trinity and at the dissolution it was granted the Sir Thomas Audley, then to William Ayloffe and Alice his wife and they sold it to John Crouch who d. in 1606, leaving it to his son John who d. 1615. It stayed with various Crouches until 1720.
So we have no further information on this John Crouch’s ancestry and still know nothing of his wife who, from his will, must have predeceased him.
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Clif Jade has kindly produced the information about his wife; see the details in the Notes for his father-in-law, John Scott.
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He and Joan had these children:
John who m. Anne Rolfe, dau. of henry Rolfe of Kelvedon, Essex
Thomas m. N. K. and had 2 sons,
Richard
Nicholas
William
Elizabeth m. (1) Matt Flyer (2) Wm Freeman
Jane m. (1) Edward Burrowe, (2) Edward Barkham,
Anne m. (1) Robert Wyncoll, (2) Ralph Hare, (3) Ed Lord Montagu
Joan m. Ralph Freeman
Margaret m. (1) Allen Elvine, (2) John Hare, Henry Montagu, earl of Manchester
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