WINSPEARE; IRL; 1800-1895 The name Winspeare has been handed down in my Irish quarter without any record of a person named Winspeare marrying into the family. Peter Foley (Church of Ireland minister) and Mary Rogers McCarthy of Glantane, my great, great grandparents, married in Kilshannig near Mallow, Co. Cork, in 1853. I have the parish record of the marriage. Mary had a father named William McCarthy, a schoolmaster, and a sister named Eleanor who taught school in the area and lived until around 1910. Peter Foley was born in Co. Kerry ca. 1831. The story is that his family was Roman Catholic and converted to Church of Ireland about 1843, during the famine. Malachi was a schoolmaster and/or scripture reader, and there is a record of a man with that name teaching in Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry, in 1826. Peter and Mary's children were William Malcolm, Thomas or Thomas Winspeare, and Anna Elizabeth, born much later. Other children died young with names like Alfred Peter, Mary Gibson, Arthur Winspeare, and Eleanor Agnes. Thomas Foley was an alcoholic and eventually left for the U.S. or Canada. William (b. 1854) 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 in Dublin in 1944. He is said to have been born in Coachford, Co. Cork, but his baptismal record cannot be found in there or in Glantane or in the Mallow area. 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. Almost no record of his early years exists. Recently I noticed the baptism of a Rebecca Winspeare McCarthy in Kilshannig Parish in the 1840's. Could the Winspeare family have employed the McCarthys and Foleys as teachers and fed them during the famine? Or perhaps they were the ones who helped Peter Foley attend Trinity College Dublin. William named his first son Thomas William Winspeare and his last daughter Gladys Eva Winspeare. For each generation down to mine at least one child was given Winspeare as a name without our having any knowledge of such a family being related to ours. Any clues or tips? Elizabeth Winspeare Knowlton KnowltonEW@compuserve.com