FOLEY; KER,IRL>COR,IRL; 1830-1880 Looking for information on family of Peter Foley (first a schoolteacher, after 1856 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 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 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 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, Mary Gibson, Arthur Winspeare, and Eleanor Agnes 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 (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 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 anywhere 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. Any clues or tips on these Foleys? Please respond to this query only if you you have information on people with the same full names or in these specific areas who did not leave Ireland because of the potato famine. Do not respond JUST because you have Foleys in your family. Remember it is as common as Johnson is in the U.S. I WOULD like to hear from other people with Church of Ireland ministers in their families. Thanks! Elizabeth W. Knowlton KnowltonEW@Compuserve.com