Couch Family History
Couch Name Meaning
Cornish and Welsh: nickname for a red-haired man, from
cough, coch ‘red(-haired)’. Compare Gough.English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of beds or
bedding, or perhaps a nickname for a lazy man, from Middle English,
Old French couche ‘bed’, a derivative of Old French
coucher ‘to lay down’, Latin collocare ‘to place’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Couch
Name Distribution of Couch Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Couch families
 101 - 199  34 - 100 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Couch families
|
254 - 506 85 - 253 |
1 - 84 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Couch families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Couch census records
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Couch Family Origin
Couch Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Couch
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Couch Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Couch census records
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Couch Civil War Service Records
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