Brief Life History of Mariah "Mary"
When Mariah "Mary" Couch was born in 1755, in Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Couch, was 20 and her mother, Elizabeth Walthall, was 33. She married John "Jonathan" Randolph Robertson Jr in 1772, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1810, in Laurens, Laurens, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 55.
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- South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-JFNS-W?cc=1919417&wc=M6N4-SM9%3A210904901%2C211173301
- South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-JFXB-2?cc=1919417&wc=M6N4-SM9%3A210904901%2C211173301
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1775
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English (Cornwall and Devon): nickname from Middle English couch(e) ‘hump, hunch’, used for a hunchback. In Cornwall and Devon it is usually pronounced as Cooch.
English (Cornwall and Devon): variant of Gooch .
English (Cornwall and Devon): from Middle English coche, couche ‘bed, couch, tablecloth’ (Old French couche, culche). It could have been a metonymic occupational name for someone who made such items or a nickname for a lazy individual. Alternatively, it could have been applied to someone who produced couchwork, a luxurious embroidery in which gold or silver thread and jewels were sewn into satin or silk robes.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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