Beatrice Etheldred Couch

Abt 1914 -

• Name	Beatrice Etheldred Couch
  Birth	Abt 1914	Toronto, Ontario   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I12006	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Charles Couch,   b. 12 Nov 1888, St. Ives, Cornwall, England d. 22 Mar 1918, France (Age 29 years)
  Mother	Beatrice Maud Bragg,   b. Jul 1894-Sep 1894, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Marriage	18 Feb 1911	Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F7234	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mervyn James Ferris,   b. Abt 1912, Feversham, Grey, Ontario
  Marriage	24 May 1934	Toronto, Ontario   [2]
  Family ID	F7825	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Apr 2026

  
  

• Notes

  From notes by Jan Hayden, PNH's mother: All my grandma said or knew was that her brother Charles had been lost in the war when a troop ship went down in the English Channel. Perhaps that was all that Charles’ wife, Beatrice Maude Bragg Couch, told them. I inferred that she wasn’t exactly liked by his family. At any rated, after he was declared dead she said she was destitute and some fellow agreed to marry her but he would accept her baby, a boy who I heard had some kind of physical or mental problems, but he wouldn’t take Beatrice and Kersal, likely because he couldn’t support more. So, she shipped them off to her sister-in-law in Toronto, alone. They were supposed to be sent to Toronto but were disembarked in Montreal, left sitting on their trunk on the wharf. A family aid worker found them and called Uncle Jack who was waiting for them in Toronto. He immediately drove to Montreal and picked them up. […T]hey were very young and Beatrice never really got over being abandoned.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9021] 1921 census of Canada, on ancestry.com., year only. [S9022] Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1943, on ancestry.com. [S1263] Personal records held by P & T Nielsen Hayden. [S9015] Ontario, Canada Births, 1832-1918, on ancestry.com., record of the birth of son Charles Kercel Couch.