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Subject: [[GALAUREN]] Re: COOEY, MALLOY, YOUNG about 1800
Date: 16 May 2003 13:54:48 -0600

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Hi Larry

Since I posted my query, I have found more on my line. I have seen information by Earl COUEY of California and others that adds to what I had.

Earl assures me that the name of the Georgia family is spelled COUEY. He indicates that a group of COUEYs arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on Aug. 31, 1767 aboard the ship Brittania. He says that even though the ships last port of call was Ireland, that they were not irish but most likely French. The group consisted of William COUEY and wife Jane or Janet, their 3 sons, John C. age 13 (born about 1754) William age 12 (born about 1755) and Joseph age 3 (born about 1764). There was also a Samuel COUEY (abt 1735-?) (probably a brother of the elder William).

Earl's e-mail address is if you would like to contact him directly.

All of this is tentative for me because I am waiting on Earl to send me information about their descendents. I have seen family trees of this group and their descendents, primarily on Ancestry.com and am convinced that my William COUEY or COOEY born 1796 in Laurens County, Georgia is a grandson of Samuel COUEY (abt 1735-?) who arrived in Charleston in 1767. In fact I get the strong impression, since COUEY is such and unusual name, that all of the South Carolina, Georgia and Florida COUEYs are descendents from those two male COUEYs who arrived in Charleston in 1767.

I have collected all that I could find of this family but have not seen your Serena COUEY born 1855.

I have seen one family who lived in the Mountgomery county Georgia area. That was John COUEY (1785-1849) son of Samuel COUEY (abt 1735-?). John married Elizabeth GAY (1785- ?). Both John and wife Elizabeth were born in South Carolina and died in Montgomery County, Georgia. They had 8 sons and 3 daughters between 1820 and 1843. I believe that most of those children were born in Montgomery County, Georgia but my sources are not clear on that. Several of those moved to other parts of of Georgia and some to Florida. At least one Martin COUEY (1828-?) shows up in the 1870 and 1880 federal census in Montgomery County. His wifes name was Susan BUCHANAN (abt 1883-?). I do not have information on their children but they were married in 1851, about right to be the parents of your Serena.

Surely one of the eight sons is the father of your Serena. The first 4 sons are the right age to have a daughter born in 1855. The 4 younger sons are to young to have children born in 1855.

Try the following link to see if you can pull up the Ancestry.com link to the family of John COUEY and Elizabeth GAY.

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:968788&id=I91

Good Hunting
Walter McMillan

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