Henry Couchman Jr. was baptised at St. James Church, Great Packington, on 15 July 1771 to parents Henry Couchman Snr. and Susannah Couchman née Barnes.

 

Henry Snr. was an architect and landscape gardener who begun his career through a carpentry apprenticeship at his father’s business in the county of Kent. He designed notable buildings in Warwickshire, such as the Old Drapers' Hall, Coventry, the House of Correction in Warwick, and a boundary bridge in Ryton on Dunsmore. After the death of the architect Matthew Brettingham in 1769, Henry Snr. was recruited to complete the development work ongoing at the Earl of Aylesford's seat of Packington Hall. An inscription in the lead roof reads: 'this house was built by Sir Clement Fisher Bar[one]t in the year 1693 and was cased with stone and enlarged by his grandson Heneage Earl of Aylesford in the year 1772. Henry Couchman, Surveyor of the work'. Henry Snr. spent the last years of his life working as Warwickshire’s County Surveyor, before before passing away in 1803.

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Henry Jnr. grew up in Warwickshire. He married Elizabeth Short (1787-1830) by License at Solihull, Warwickshire on 16 January 1809. His sister Susanna Couchman married the Chester agriculturalist Thomas Wedge. 

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Henry Couchman Jnr. and Elizabeth Couchman née Short had the following children:​

• Elizabeth Couchman (1813-1869). Unmarried.

• ​Charles Couchman (1816-1886).

• Susan Couchman (1817-1904). Unmarried.​

• Robert Couchman (1818-1882). Married Mary Katharine Jones of Trinidad and Tobago at Bedford, Bedfordshire. 

• Thomas Barnes Couchman (1819-1893). Married Sarah Whitby Smith at Aspley Guise, Bedford, Bedfordshire. 
  Jane Mashiter Couchman (1821-1892). Married 1. Hugh Francis Burman at Temple Balsall, Warwickshire, 2. Reverend John Holbecke Short.

• Colonel Edward Holbecke Couchman (1822-?). Married Federata Harriett Whitlock at Bangalore, Madras, India.

• Major General Richard Short Couchman (1825-1900). Married Elizabeth Margaret Kennan at Bangalore, Madras, India.
• William Dundas Couchman (1826-1889).
• Mary Sophia Couchman (1828-). Married George Higgins at Bedford, Bedfordshire. 
• Selina Sarah Couchman (1831-1912). Married Boteler Chernocke Smith at Temple Balsall, Warwickshire. ​​

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During his working life, he was employed the Chief Constable of the Hemlingford Hundred, Warwickshire and as the County Bridgemaster. Some of his projects include Leamington Priors Bridge, Salford Bridge (Birmingham) and Aston Bridge (Birmingham). Henry Jnr. served as a Juror for Hampton-in-Arden in 1825, like his father who has served for Solihull in 1789.

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He died 'after a protracting and afflicting illness' on 29 December 1838 and was buried in the churchyard at St. Mary the Virgin, Temple Balsall, near Solihull, Warwickshire. Probate was granted to his widow in 1839.

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