There was a Wesley that showed up in Chatham County 1850 who was 25 yrs old. Bill. ----- Original Message ----- From: <evafromnc@aol.com> To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: [COUCH] Couch in NC > Rutherford County NC. > In 1846 a petition for a new County of POLK to be formed from the County > of > Rutherford NC > Several of the Couches signed this petition: > > Nathaniel Couch > Andrew CouRch > Westly CouRch > George Couch > > > ============================== > Expand your family tree. Search more than 200 million names in > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >

Do you have anything else on them that might indicate who they were or a birth date or a spouse for any of them. I don't see anything that looks like migh be them on the 1850 Censu of North Carolina. Bill. ----- Original Message ----- From: <evafromnc@aol.com> To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: [COUCH] Couch in NC > Rutherford County NC. > In 1846 a petition for a new County of POLK to be formed from the County > of > Rutherford NC > Several of the Couches signed this petition: > > Nathaniel Couch > Andrew CouRch > Westly CouRch > George Couch > > > ============================== > Expand your family tree. Search more than 200 million names in > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >

Hope the list is working? I sent this out 2 days ago and it never came through. No reply from Joe.....are you still there Joe? <<After recently uploading new files to my website, it has come to my attention that the search engine there was not picking up certain names. I've re-indexed the site and it should be working ok now. Some of you may want to pay another visit and try again :-) Happy Hunting! Kathleen Couch Latshaw Kentucky Couch Kin http://swapasource.com >>

I would like to inform everyone that we have some money in the General fund for DNA test. We got from now to dec31 to use it. and add more if anyone is interested. If you have a kit that has not been sent back in and is not paid for. please send me a message before you send it in and I would like to run how this work. If you send your money in to general fund this month they will match it When you send your kit in let them know to take $25.00 from matching funds and $76.00 from general fund to pay for it. we can get some money in General fund and then find a person on one of the charts that has not took a dna test to do it and have it paid for. If anyone would like to send in 25 dollars they will match it. but only $25 dollars of Matching fund can be used on one kit. but that is 25% saving while it last.

Rutherford County NC. In 1846 a petition for a new County of POLK to be formed from the County of Rutherford NC Several of the Couches signed this petition: Nathaniel Couch Andrew CouRch Westly CouRch George Couch

After recently uploading new files to my website, it has come to my attention that the search engine there was not picking up certain names. I've re-indexed the site and it should be working ok now. Some of you may want to pay another visit and try again :-) Happy Hunting! Kathleen Couch Latshaw Kentucky Couch Kin http://swapasource.com

Dear All, I apologise for my poor memory in advance and hope that all on this list are actually interested in the subject matter. For those of you who are please visit this link: http://www.couchfamily.info <http://www.couchfamily.info/> Because of my enormous amount of family history and related data, collected over the last six years or so, and my trouble in exchanging it with so many of you I decided to publish it to a web-site for anyone to browse at their leisure. Believe me it still needs a lot of work, but perhaps with all your help, I might actually get some of it sorted out in the end. The information published to the website above is only a fraction of the information I have acquired, particularly on the Couch family and on areas such as Boscastle, Tintagel and surrounding parishes. So if you do have particular queries on a line that is covered by the web information , I might (although I do stress MIGHT) have something else hidden away that I could not use myself but recorded "just in case". I'm a bit of a magpie when it comes to all things Cornish and of relation to me and mine. I'm also very sentimental. Some of you have probably helped me compile this information, particularly Malcolm Couch, to whom I express my grateful thanks. For those of you whom I need to do stuff for like, get a picture or visit a church, please bear with me. Boscastle has been badly affected as you will be aware this year and some roads are not passable, which makes other routes far worse. Added to the fact my car did a vanishing act 6 months ago, I'm a bit dependent on hubby being about so I can get around. I haven't forgotten you, my bag is stuffed with requests. I also have a number of pictures available, not all mine, of certain people and places locally. Anyway, I hope you find something you find of interest for yourself in the website, it certainly isn't perfect, it needs editing and I'm no expert, but hey - share and share alike! Please feel free to spread the word! Best wishes and apologies where appropriate. Sarah Melton, Tintagel, Cornwall mailto:sjmelton@thelawnranger.co.uk PS: Peter and David - there is quite a bit on the Bellamy family and their connections with Tintagel, the Byron mystery and the relationship to the Homans and Sir Sydney Waterlow. If you have the email address for the Tintagel OPC then please pass this email on. PPS: To my immediate family: Roger, Andrew and Jonathan - this should be a bit of fun for you to explore and try and make some sense of! PPPS: To Malcolm - you might finally be able to see what I've been rambling about and I hope you and yours are happily ensconced on the IOM.

Thanks Kathy, I would like to hear more from other Couch Researchers, on this. What is your opinion on This. They have extended it through November. I did not hear anything from any of you the last time I posted it. but we did pick up a couple more that are doing the DNA. If some of you who would like to know how some of the Stray Couch line connect back to other couches. this would be a way to work together and get a test done If we could get a living Male Couch from one of these lines that has not been tested. Even the girls could get involved this way. I see some of the other projects are really getting involved with this DNA and is real excited about it. but Our Couch line seem to have lost interest. Please let me know your thoughts on this even if you are against it. Bill Couch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Latshaw" <kathyl@sssnet.com> To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [COUCH] Couch DNA project > Bill..........this is one from last newsletter from FTDNA that I sent you. > Here's what I found on the website: > > > <<For the month of October, Family Tree DNA will match any funds > contributed > to a General Fund, up to $200.00. The rules for these matching funds are: > - up to $25.00 can be used per test kit from the matching funds > - matching funds can only be applied to new test kits > - matching funds must be used by 12/31/04, when they will expire>> > They are extending this offer through November. > > It appears to me they've set up a means for others to contribute funds to > be > used, like a type of scholarship fund for new test participants. If > they're matching up to $200, it would be excellent to take advantage of. > > Being the administrator, you'd have to get some advice on how to best use > it > in recruiting "new" participants.....sorting group needs....biggest > questions, etc. Since FTDNA is offering the option for "memorial" > contribution, perhaps that would be a good way to divide the funds? If I > were to contribute, I'd definitely want to designate for KY participants > since we know there is a real shortage of participation there. > > Kathleen Couch Latshaw > Kentucky Couch Kin > http://swapasource.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Couch" <bcouch@CouchGenweb.com> > To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:11 AM > Subject: [COUCH] Couch DNA project > > >> I got this message from FamilyTreeDNA today. Thought I would pass it >> along > and see if anyone can make out what they are doing. >> --------------------------- >> >> To Couch group manager, >> >> a) Matching gift and more: after the launch of the General Fund, many of >> you e-mailed me and asked if it would be possible for contributions to be >> made in memory, or in honor of a specific person. Others asked if the >> entire General Fund could be named in memory of a specific person. Our >> answer is yes to both alternatives. We are adding a field in the ordering >> page in case you want to honor a specific person with your donation. And, >> in case you want your entire General Fund to be named after someone, >> please let me know, and I will create a specific Contribution page that >> will have the person's name. In conjuction with that, we are continuing >> our matching gift offer until the end of >> November;(www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html) >> >> b) mtDNA promotion: Responding to our customers' requests, we have >> decided >> to extend the promotion on the mtDNA tests and bundles to the end of >> November. Please make your participants or potential participants aware >> of >> this extension; (http://www.familytreedna.com/mtDNA_promo.asp) >> >> c) The same is valid fo our "Haplogroup Challenge", which will also be >> offered for $50 until the end of November: if we are wrong in our >> prediction of any testee's Haplogroup, we will test until we have the >> correct Haplogroup assigned; >> >> a) Our newest updated version of the Y-chromosome Haplogroup chart that >> was presented at our Conference is now for sale. It is a color coded wall >> chart. You can see it and order at the Haplogroup area of the personal >> pages; >> >> Thank you for your continued support! >> >> E-mail me any time! >> >> Max Blankfeld >> Vice-President, Operations and Marketing >> http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.com >> "History Unearthed Daily" >> max@familytreedna.com >> 713-868-1438 > > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >

I do, and you may want to think about www.tribalpages.com you can put up a tree and add up to 3 photos per person. and the good thing about it is that the folks don't have to be kin. http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/cowetafamilies dianne wood --- Kathy Latshaw <kathyl@sssnet.com> wrote: > I've had a site at Photoisland for years and just discovered they > are closing down as of November 22. Some of you have visited there > before and just thought I'd let you know. If there were any pix > there you wanted copies of you might want to visit soon. You just > rt. click on image and save. Email me offlist and I'll send > invitation. I'll find a new home for them all but may not be soon. > > Kathy > Kentucky Couch Kin > http://swapasource.com > > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, > find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

I've had a site at Photoisland for years and just discovered they are closing down as of November 22. Some of you have visited there before and just thought I'd let you know. If there were any pix there you wanted copies of you might want to visit soon. You just rt. click on image and save. Email me offlist and I'll send invitation. I'll find a new home for them all but may not be soon. Kathy Kentucky Couch Kin http://swapasource.com

Bill..........this is one from last newsletter from FTDNA that I sent you. Here's what I found on the website: <<For the month of October, Family Tree DNA will match any funds contributed to a General Fund, up to $200.00. The rules for these matching funds are: - up to $25.00 can be used per test kit from the matching funds - matching funds can only be applied to new test kits - matching funds must be used by 12/31/04, when they will expire>> They are extending this offer through November. It appears to me they've set up a means for others to contribute funds to be used, like a type of scholarship fund for new test participants. If they're matching up to $200, it would be excellent to take advantage of. Being the administrator, you'd have to get some advice on how to best use it in recruiting "new" participants.....sorting group needs....biggest questions, etc. Since FTDNA is offering the option for "memorial" contribution, perhaps that would be a good way to divide the funds? If I were to contribute, I'd definitely want to designate for KY participants since we know there is a real shortage of participation there. Kathleen Couch Latshaw Kentucky Couch Kin http://swapasource.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Couch" <bcouch@CouchGenweb.com> To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:11 AM Subject: [COUCH] Couch DNA project > I got this message from FamilyTreeDNA today. Thought I would pass it along and see if anyone can make out what they are doing. > --------------------------- > > To Couch group manager, > > a) Matching gift and more: after the launch of the General Fund, many of > you e-mailed me and asked if it would be possible for contributions to be > made in memory, or in honor of a specific person. Others asked if the > entire General Fund could be named in memory of a specific person. Our > answer is yes to both alternatives. We are adding a field in the ordering > page in case you want to honor a specific person with your donation. And, > in case you want your entire General Fund to be named after someone, > please let me know, and I will create a specific Contribution page that > will have the person's name. In conjuction with that, we are continuing > our matching gift offer until the end of > November;(www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html) > > b) mtDNA promotion: Responding to our customers' requests, we have decided > to extend the promotion on the mtDNA tests and bundles to the end of > November. Please make your participants or potential participants aware of > this extension; (http://www.familytreedna.com/mtDNA_promo.asp) > > c) The same is valid fo our "Haplogroup Challenge", which will also be > offered for $50 until the end of November: if we are wrong in our > prediction of any testee's Haplogroup, we will test until we have the > correct Haplogroup assigned; > > a) Our newest updated version of the Y-chromosome Haplogroup chart that > was presented at our Conference is now for sale. It is a color coded wall > chart. You can see it and order at the Haplogroup area of the personal > pages; > > Thank you for your continued support! > > E-mail me any time! > > Max Blankfeld > Vice-President, Operations and Marketing > http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.com > "History Unearthed Daily" > max@familytreedna.com > 713-868-1438

I got this message from FamilyTreeDNA today. Thought I would pass it along and see if anyone can make out what they are doing. --------------------------- To Couch group manager, a) Matching gift and more: after the launch of the General Fund, many of you e-mailed me and asked if it would be possible for contributions to be made in memory, or in honor of a specific person. Others asked if the entire General Fund could be named in memory of a specific person. Our answer is yes to both alternatives. We are adding a field in the ordering page in case you want to honor a specific person with your donation. And, in case you want your entire General Fund to be named after someone, please let me know, and I will create a specific Contribution page that will have the person's name. In conjuction with that, we are continuing our matching gift offer until the end of November;(www.familytreedna.com/contribution.html) b) mtDNA promotion: Responding to our customers' requests, we have decided to extend the promotion on the mtDNA tests and bundles to the end of November. Please make your participants or potential participants aware of this extension; (http://www.familytreedna.com/mtDNA_promo.asp) c) The same is valid fo our "Haplogroup Challenge", which will also be offered for $50 until the end of November: if we are wrong in our prediction of any testee's Haplogroup, we will test until we have the correct Haplogroup assigned; a) Our newest updated version of the Y-chromosome Haplogroup chart that was presented at our Conference is now for sale. It is a color coded wall chart. You can see it and order at the Haplogroup area of the personal pages; Thank you for your continued support! E-mail me any time! Max Blankfeld Vice-President, Operations and Marketing http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.com "History Unearthed Daily" max@familytreedna.com 713-868-1438

Sharing below from another list. There are more than 50 Couches listed there. > There are a few new databases now at Rootsweb that may be of interest to our > members. These are User-Contributed Databases. > > Rootsweb addresses are as follows: > > > KENTUCKY. > Harlan County. Selected marriages, 1818-1929, 322 records; > Leslie County. Selected Marriages 1879-1927, 54 records; > Perry County. Selected Marriages 1823-1931, 44 records; > Contributor: Gloria Kay Vandiver Inman > http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ Kathleen Couch Latshaw Kentucky Couch Kin http://swapasource.com

This all started with a John Couch in VA who sired two sons: James and John. I hang from the James Couch. They sure have a very interesting path down thru history. thanks so much for all. ellen

I'm not sure if this relates or not but here's an excerpt from "The History of Fairfield County, Connecticut, published 1889" It is possible that this phrase was derived from living near one of these roadside springs. "One of the most fertile roots of nomenclature was the simple road-side cross. The latter old English form, is still found lingering in our crutched or crouched Friars. Langland describes a pilgrim as having many a crouche on his cloak, i.e. many a mark of the cross embroidered thereon. A dweller by the way-side crucifixes, would easily get the soubriquet there from and thus we find atte Crouch to be of early occurrence." {Bardsley's English Surnames). A traveler abroad frequently meets with the wayside crucifix, before which the passer-by kneels in silent prayer to the living Christ in Heaven. It was often the case that these crucifixes were raised on the border of a spring of water, so that the passer-by could refresh himself with a cup of cold water. It was from living near one of these roadside crosses that the Crouch, or Couch family derived their names." Hope this helps, Dave (Connecticut Couch line) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jo Gordon" <JoGordon@webtv.net> To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [COUCH] Couch watersops > Could it be these particular Couches were poor and used water instead of > milk to make gravy to "sop" their bread in ?? As I understand it "sop" > is an Old English word - it is used in the King James version of the > Bible in the Book of John. > Jo > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Sometimes I think the whole bunch is "off base". Calvin was married three times that I know about. One wife had a son but he only lived two years. One wife had two daughters and one daughter died very young. The other daughter was married in Hopkins county KY before Calvin moved to TX and it is thru this daughter that I have the descendants. Haven't really looked very deep into this area but I do have some notes and pictures that were sent to me. If you are related, I will dig deep and find what I have. ellen -------------- Original message from "Kathy Latshaw" : -------------- > Does this mean that you have none of those others from Upshur County in your > family files? Also curious if you've ever visited that grave of Calvin > George Couch, as the book has it listed? Is it funny that close a family > would get the name switched around on the grave stone or is it a typo? > > Kathy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:22 AM > Subject: Re: [COUCH] Couch in Washington and Upshur & Wichita County Texas > Cemeteries > > > > To the best of my knowledge (which is slim), George Calvin was the only > child of John Couch to go to Texas. Note: I used the name as George Calvin > and that is the way it was written in the WILL of his father. This > particular line of Couch is most interesting ( maybe because my grandmother > was a niece of this George Calvin) but one thread which I find in them is > there readiness to be in court and be affilitated with court in some > capacity as well as educating their female. They also seem to be close > knit in many ways. However, I guess we see what we want to see in our > ancestors so this is just my opinion. > > Thanks again for the Memory Lane trip. ellen > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Thanks anyway Ellen, no relation that I know of....just curious who they belong to. Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: <bruce.mckown@att.net> To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [COUCH] Couch in Washington and Upshur & Wichita County Texas Cemeteries > Sometimes I think the whole bunch is "off base". Calvin was married three times that I know about. One wife had a son but he only lived two years. One wife had two daughters and one daughter died very young. The other daughter was married in Hopkins county KY before Calvin moved to TX and it is thru this daughter that I have the descendants. Haven't really looked very deep into this area but I do have some notes and pictures that were sent to me. If you are related, I will dig deep and find what I have. ellen > > -------------- Original message from "Kathy Latshaw" : -------------- > > > Does this mean that you have none of those others from Upshur County in your > > family files? Also curious if you've ever visited that grave of Calvin > > George Couch, as the book has it listed? Is it funny that close a family > > would get the name switched around on the grave stone or is it a typo? > > > > Kathy > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: > > To: > > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:22 AM > > Subject: Re: [COUCH] Couch in Washington and Upshur & Wichita County Texas > > Cemeteries > > > > > > > To the best of my knowledge (which is slim), George Calvin was the only > > child of John Couch to go to Texas. Note: I used the name as George Calvin > > and that is the way it was written in the WILL of his father. This > > particular line of Couch is most interesting ( maybe because my grandmother > > was a niece of this George Calvin) but one thread which I find in them is > > there readiness to be in court and be affilitated with court in some > > capacity as well as educating their female. They also seem to be close > > knit in many ways. However, I guess we see what we want to see in our > > ancestors so this is just my opinion. > > > Thanks again for the Memory Lane trip. ellen > > > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

To the best of my knowledge (which is slim), George Calvin was the only child of John Couch to go to Texas. Note: I used the name as George Calvin and that is the way it was written in the WILL of his father. This particular line of Couch is most interesting ( maybe because my grandmother was a niece of this George Calvin) but one thread which I find in them is there readiness to be in court and be affilitated with court in some capacity as well as educating their female. They also seem to be close knit in many ways. However, I guess we see what we want to see in our ancestors so this is just my opinion. Thanks again for the Memory Lane trip. ellen

Kathy just brought this to my attention. I must have missed it. ----- Original Message ----- From: <editor@familytreedna.com> To: <kathyl@sssnet.com> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:20 PM Subject: ***POSSIBLE SPAM*** Facts & Genes from Family Tree DNA The Group Administrator's Page now has a new selection called General Fund. Clicking on this selection will show all the transactions for the General Fund for the Surname Project. The transactions shown will be funds received by Family Tree DNA for the Surname Project General Fund and fund expenditures. Family Tree DNA accepts funds by check, credit card or PayPal. (Checks must be in US Dollars only. PayPal transactions must be to info@familytreedna.com, and specify XYZ Surname General Fund.) The General Fund provides an opportunity for Group Administrators to raise sponsorship funds in any currency by the sponsors using the credit card payment feature to handle the currency conversion. In addition, sponsors may feel more comfortable making their sponsorship contribution directly to Family Tree DNA. This feature could increase the sponsorship funds raised. For the month of October, Family Tree DNA will match any funds contributed to a General Fund, up to $200.00. The rules for these matching funds are: - up to $25.00 can be used per test kit from the matching funds - matching funds can only be applied to new test kits - matching funds must be used by 12/31/04, when they will expire

Does this mean that you have none of those others from Upshur County in your family files? Also curious if you've ever visited that grave of Calvin George Couch, as the book has it listed? Is it funny that close a family would get the name switched around on the grave stone or is it a typo? Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: <bruce.mckown@att.net> To: <COUCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [COUCH] Couch in Washington and Upshur & Wichita County Texas Cemeteries > To the best of my knowledge (which is slim), George Calvin was the only child of John Couch to go to Texas. Note: I used the name as George Calvin and that is the way it was written in the WILL of his father. This particular line of Couch is most interesting ( maybe because my grandmother was a niece of this George Calvin) but one thread which I find in them is there readiness to be in court and be affilitated with court in some capacity as well as educating their female. They also seem to be close knit in many ways. However, I guess we see what we want to see in our ancestors so this is just my opinion. > Thanks again for the Memory Lane trip. ellen