Setting up new phone with old apps

Hello,
I got the iPhone 6 yesterday. First of all I synced my iPhone 5 so that it would have all my current apps etc then I plugged my iPhone 6 into my MacBook and restored it to my most recent backup. It synced photos and music but no apps. I looked at what apps had been saved to my MacBook and there was only 1. I then restored the iPhone 6 to factory settings and did the whole thing again. Same problem.
I did a bit of searching on google and found a piece of software called 'TouchCopy12'. I used this to put all my apps from my iPhone 5 onto my iTunes. This worked perfectly and now could see all the apps I wanted on my computer. I plugged in my iPhone 6 and chose all the apps I wanted and synced it. Some have transferred but I got an error message saying that i was not authorised to do this on this computer and I needed to authorise it. I did this but it said this computer was already authorised!
Does anyone know a way around this? Most of them are paid apps and some are free. I don't mind downloading the free ones but I don't want to have to pay for the paid ones again.
I don't know if this will be related, but while having my iPhone 5 i got married and therefore changed my iCloud username/email etc. I can't remember if the apps were downloaded on the old or new one. I have tried to log into my old iCloud account but I can not remember the password and when I answer the security questions it claims they are wrong and when I click to send a verification email it does not come through!
Thank you for any advice or solutions.

gem.mcc84 wrote:
Hello,
I got the iPhone 6 yesterday. First of all I synced my iPhone 5 so that it would have all my current apps etc then I plugged my iPhone 6 into my MacBook and restored it to my most recent backup. It synced photos and music but no apps. I looked at what apps had been saved to my MacBook and there was only 1. I then restored the iPhone 6 to factory settings and did the whole thing again. Same problem.
I did a bit of searching on google and found a piece of software called 'TouchCopy12'. I used this to put all my apps from my iPhone 5 onto my iTunes. This worked perfectly and now could see all the apps I wanted on my computer. I plugged in my iPhone 6 and chose all the apps I wanted and synced it. Some have transferred but I got an error message saying that i was not authorised to do this on this computer and I needed to authorise it. I did this but it said this computer was already authorised!
Does anyone know a way around this? Most of them are paid apps and some are free. I don't mind downloading the free ones but I don't want to have to pay for the paid ones again.
I don't know if this will be related, but while having my iPhone 5 i got married and therefore changed my iCloud username/email etc. I can't remember if the apps were downloaded on the old or new one. I have tried to log into my old iCloud account but I can not remember the password and when I answer the security questions it claims they are wrong and when I click to send a verification email it does not come through!
Thank you for any advice or solutions.
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