Polly Ann Couch was born on 11 January 1848, in Cowan, Franklin, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Civil District 15, Hardin, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 1, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 31 January 1932, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States.
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.
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