FOLEY; KER,IRL>COR,IRL; 1830-1900 Looking for information on family of Peter Foley (first a schoolteacher, after 1870 a Church of Ireland, that is Protestant, minister) of Drummahane and Mary Rogers McCarthy of Glantane who married in Kilshannig parish near Mallow, Co. Cork, in 1853. I have the parish record of the marriage. Mary had a father named William W. R. McCarthy, a schoolmaster, and a sister named Eleanor who taught school in Kinsale and lived until around 1910. Peter Foley was born in Co. Kerry around 1831. The story is that his family was Roman Catholic and converted to Church of Ireland about 1843. The father, Malachi Foley, was a schoolmaster and scripture reader also; and there is a record of a man with that name teaching in Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry, in 1826. Peter attended TCD around 1856 and was a minister by 1870. He served in Sligo and finally in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, where he and Mary were buried in the CofI churchyard in 1896 and 1897 respectively. I have collected the clergy records of him and his son and uncovered the gravestone in Mayo. Peter also had a sister Agnes born in 1840. This means their mother must have been born by around 1800. I suspect her name was Agnes also. The sister Agnes married in 1864 a constable named William Smyth whose father was George. They were both residents of Millstreet, Co. Cork, where Agnes was a teacher. Peter and Mary's children were William Malcolm, Thomas or Thomas Winspeare, and Anna Elizabeth (born 17 years later than William in Co. Sligo). Four other children with the names of Alfred Peter, Eleanor Agnes, Arthur Winspeare, and Mary Gibson died near birth. Thomas Foley was an alcoholic and eventually left for the U.S. or Canada but is said to have left no descendants. Anna Elizabeth became a schoolteacher in England, where she died before 1960. William M. (b. Aug. 15, 1854) graduated from Trinity College Dublin, married twice (Hackett and Clarke), and had a large family (all branches traced) while following a successful career as a minister in the Church of Ireland also. He served in Askeaton, Co. Limerick; Ballycastle, Co. Mayo; and Tralee, Co. Kerry, among other places, and died in Dublin in 1944. He is said to have been born in Coachford, Co. Cork, and his baptismal record is in the parish of Magourney. He said once that he remembered as a child in Skibbereen, Cork, hearing the coachman's horn in the night when the stage came in, before there was train service there. His mother's parents were possibly married in the Diocese of Cork and Ross. Any clues or tips on these Protestant Foleys? Elizabeth W. Knowlton KnowltonEW@Compuserve.com