Hi Andrew, Jonathan COUCH and Jane QUILLER married in Lansallos (one of the two parishes in which Polperro was situated) in 1815. At least three of their children were baptised there: Richard Quiller (1816), Margaret Quiller (1817) and John Quiller (1819). They are all on the 1841 census on Lansallos Street, Polperro, by which time Richard was a 25-29 year old surgeon apothecary like his father. John the younger was noted as Jonathan, and there were two younger children: Thomas and John. By 1851, the family was still in Polperro. Sons Thomas (24) and John Q (20) were medical students and son Jonathan (30) was a surgeon. Son Richard Quiller (34) was a surgeon lodging in Chapel Street, Madron Penzance. So, if Arthur Quiller COUCH was the son of Thomas, that would make Richard Quiller COUCH his uncle. Joanne, Toronto, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Rodger" <rodgera@audioio.com> To: <cornish@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [CORNISH] West Briton Weekly News 27th June 1856 NEWS Part 1. > On 31 Jul 2012, at 4:29 AM, isabelj@talktalk.net wrote (snip): > >> Red. EDWARD MOORE, > > (Presumably Revd. -- I have trouble with light key-touch, too!) > >> curate, of St. Mary's Chapel, Penzance; JOHN OLDS, >> police-superintendent at Penzance; GEORGE [P...?], landlord of the >> Star >> Inn; JOHN WALLISH, landlord of the Globe; WILLIAM CUDLIP PENNINGTON, >> clerk to Messrs. Rodd, Darke, and Cornish, solicitors for complainant; >> JAMES RICHARD QUICK, surgeon, at Penzance; JOHN [TH......?] MILLETT, >> surgeon, at Penzance; and RICHARD [QUI.....?] COUCH, surgeon at >> Penzance. > > Could this last be a relation of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the well- > known author who wrote under the name of Q? He was born in Bodmin in > 1863, and his literary heritage seems to have been on the Couch side: > his father, Dr. Thomas Quiller Couch (d. 1884), was a noted > physician, folklorist and historian and his grandfather, Jonathan > Couch, was an eminent naturalist, and also a physician, historian, > classicist, apothecary, and illustrator (particularly of fish) in the > style of the time. (Citation from Wikipedia.) Sir Arthur settled in > Fowey in 1891 and was Coomodore of the Royal Fowey Yacht Club until > his death in 1944. > > The "Devon Mitchells and some Cornish too" website gives John Thomas > Millett in the 1861 census aged 62, born Phillack, Cornwall. He > lived in Market Jew Street, Penzance, where he died in 1911. > > Andrew Rodger > rodgera@audioio.com > > ------------------------------- > Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com > with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, > MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi to you, too!. On 1 Aug 2012, at 1:07 PM, JCM wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Jonathan COUCH and Jane QUILLER married in Lansallos (one of the two > parishes in which Polperro was situated) in 1815. At least three > of their > children were baptised there: Richard Quiller (1816), Margaret > Quiller > (1817) and John Quiller (1819). > They are all on the 1841 census on Lansallos Street, Polperro, by > which time > Richard was a 25-29 year old surgeon apothecary like his father. > John the > younger was noted as Jonathan, and there were two younger children: > Thomas > and John. > > By 1851, the family was still in Polperro. Sons Thomas (24) and > John Q (20) > were medical students and son Jonathan (30) was a surgeon. Son Richard > Quiller (34) was a surgeon lodging in Chapel Street, Madron Penzance. > > So, if Arthur Quiller COUCH was the son of Thomas, that would make > Richard > Quiller COUCH his uncle. > > Joanne, > Toronto, Canada You know more than I do, but then I knew nothing to start with, only what I could find by googling him. I threw that in in case anyone who was interested didn't know about my sources (one for Quiller- Couch and another for Millett). Interesting that at some stage the name became double-barrelled, with hyphen. Perhaps Arthur thought that looked better with the "Sir", which he got in 1910, i.e. well before he published his second anthology. The hyphen appears also on a memorial to him in Truro Cathedral, with the OUP shield in its top-left corner and its motto "Dominus illuminatio mea" at its foot. I have read virtually nothing of his own but I do have a copy of his "Oxford Book of English Prose", a sort of companion volume to the "Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900", which was later extended to 1918. This second anthology was published in 1926, and in the preface and acknowledgements he signs himself "A. Q-C." It was given to me by Jessie Kilburn Haarhoff (nee Davis), who was married to my mother's cousin Theodore Johannes Haarhoff, an eminent classicist who was Professor of Classics at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, for many years; their elder son has lived in Blackburn, Victoria, for many years but is now in residential care as he has Alzheimers. Despite his classicist father, he was an electrical engineer who worked for many years first for ESCOM in South Africa and then the State Electricity Commission in Victoria Andrew Rodger rodgera@audioio.com