Couch family help please

[chell]

Hi everyone,
I am trying to find information about my grandmothers parents and grandparents if anyone out there can help please.

I would like ANY info I can get on

William Alfred Couch. b: 25 October 1894 in Birkenhead, NZ

His parents were
Charles Nicholas R Couch. b: 1871 Thames NZ
Rose Campbell Smith. b: 1869 Aukland NZ

William's wife was Ruby Jones but I know they divorced and she returned to Australia.

Thank you so much for any help I can get to find out info on these people.

Cheers
Michelle

[Lucy2]

Hi Michelle   

Quite a lot of information available for your family.

>   Chas. Nicholas Robert COUCH - died 19 October 1949
>   Rose Campbell COUCH - died 21 April 1952

Cemetery records available at -

http://www.northshorecity.govt.nz/


>    William Alfred COUCH

There is a record at Purewa Cemetery (Auckland) - shows date of service as "5 March 1974" for William Alfred COUCH.

http://www.purewa.co.nz/

However there is also a record for a William Alfred COUCH (died 1974) at North Shore (see earlier cemetery link).   I think this is probably the record for the person of same name who was cremated at Purewa - the North Shore record looks like it is a burial of ashes.    (Further information is able to be obtained on the North Shore website).

Archives New Zealand (Auckland Office) holds a probate record (which should contain a copy of will) for William Alfred COUCH of Northcote, dated 1974.      At Archives NZ (in Wellington) there is a military record for a "William Alfred COUCH" (possibly the person you are looking for ?).

http://www.archives.govt.nz/

The NZ Marriage Index shows the following : -

>    Charles Nicholas Robert COUCH
      Rose Campbell SMITH
      Year - 1892    [Folio # 0062]

>    William Alfred COUCH
      Ruby Evelyn JONES
      Year - 1916    [Folio #  4519]

[Archives NZ also hold a divorce record (1930) for a William Alfred COUCH (wife's name not stated) ... there does though, seem to be a viewing restriction on this file] :

Good luck with your search.

Lu

[Thamesite2017]

Hi
You can some 1868 couch info at Kae's site
http://www.kaelewis.com/goldminers/gold-searchpage.htm George and Charles Miners at Thames

1893 There is a Charles  in Auckland Electoral roll
Surname   COUCH, Given Name   Charles
Number   2746, Electorate   City of Auckland
Voting Qualification   Residential, Residential Address   Wellington St
Occupation   Ironworker

BYe
Althea
   

[chell]

Thank you so much for all that wonderful information. It looks like I will need to make a trip over to New Zealand in order to look at all those records. They are definitely him as he was in the army. I would love to get hold of that probate package - they so often have interesting information in them.

I guess I will need to also buy the death certificates for Nicholas and Rose now to find their parents names. Very exciting that I now know their deaths.

Lu and Althea - thank you again for your help!!

Michelle

[Mk2_Zephyr]

 the marriage cert for Nicholas and Rose will have all the info, 

[Thamesite2017]

There are 2 Couch's in Thames if you look at the mining site, so either may be the father.
You can ask someone if they are going to archives to lookup the probate records for family details or archives will do so for a small fee.

Yes you will need to buy the certificates if you want that info we can't look that up

BYe
Althea

[Thamesite2017]

Remember papers past
there appears a possible match for your Charles, if Charles is the father 1870 in a courtcase Thames
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&srpos=1&cl=search&d=DSC18700611.2.27.1&e=-------en--1----2%22charles+couch%22-all
Bye
Althea

[vaux]

Hi there,
The Couch you are looking for is my partners Father ,I believe his Fathers first wife and child went to Australia after WW1.
My partners Father was William Alfred Couch from Birkenhead. does that help.


Cheers Vaux.

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[S.Couch1]

Hi,

William Alfred Couch was my grandfather., my grandmother was Ella Joy Maiden name Lempriere I think),he lived in the South Island for a time, which is where my father was born, but the family returned to Auckland and he and Joy lived in Northcote until he died.

Really interested in learning more about family in Aus.

Regards,

Steve