MCARTHY; COR,IRL; 1829-1910 On April 2, 1853, in the district of Mallow, in Kilshan(n)ig C. of I. Church in the Diocese of Cloyne (Church of Ireland), County Cork, Mary Rogers McCarthy, (daughter of William McCarthy, schoolmaster) born in County Cork and a resident of Glantane, Cork, married Peter Foley (son of Malachi Foley, a Scripture reader, amd sister of Agnes Foley), born in County Kerry and now a schoolmaster residing in Dromohane, Cork. The marriage was witnessed by William and John McCarthy. I have this parish record and a copy of Griffiths Valuation that shows a William McCarthy renting a house and school endowed by Lady Cotter in Glantane. I can find Kilshannig baptisms for four girls named Caroline Elizabeth, Rachel, Esther Phillippa, and Rebecca Winspeare who had parents named William Rogers McCarthy, a school teacher, and Eleanor or Ellen in the 1840s and 1850s. Family lore says that Mary had a sister named Eleanor who ran a little school and survived until WWI when her belongings were left in a Cork warehouse for a grand-nephew and destroyed in the Cork fire. Recently I located aunt Eleanor in the Munster 1886 directory as the head of the National Infants School in Kinsale, Co. Cork, and in the 1901 Irish census as a teacher in a primary school she ran out of her small house. Her sister Rachel is living with her, thus suggesting that the above baptisms are Eleanor and Mary's sisters and that William and Ellen/Eleanor the parents are their parents too. Eleanor states that she was born in "Cork City," so I need to search there for Mary's baptism also. A transcription for Cork and Ross Diocese Marriage License [applications?] lists a William Winspeare Rogers McCarthy and Eleanor Hegarty, 1829, who I think may be Mary's parents. Mary's eldest son remembered hearing the coachman's horn at night in Skibbereen (probably around 1860) so perhaps these McCarthys were from that area. Mary named her children William Malcolm, Eleanor Agnes, Alfred Peter, Arthur Winspeare, Mary Gibson, Thomas Winspeare, and Anna Elizabeth (most of whom did not survive). Please reply only if you have connected your McCarthys to these areas of County Cork as there were approximately 25,000 McCarthys in Ireland in the 19th century. These people were Protestant, never left Ireland, and did not go to the USA. Thanks. Elizabeth W. Knowlton KnowltonEW@compuserve.com