George Augustus De Winter, teacher of parish school, Fenagh, Leitrim, and later many other places throughout his life
My GGGrandfather George trained in the Kildare Place Model School in 1827 and first became a schoolteacher at Fenagh, Leitrim, in August 1827. The School was a parochial school there, and he was recommended for the training and job by Rev. J.W. Moore, C.of I. Rector there. He married Catherine Veitch, who had also trained at Kildare Place (1825 or 1825)and the first parish school was at Ballyconnell. Her patron was Rev. Joseph Story of Craneghan, Ballyconnell. The 2 places are only 19.4 km apart. They must have married between 1827 and 1831, because their son John De Winter was born about 1831, their daughter Elizabeth about 1832, my Great Grandmother Rebecca about 1834, all in Co. Cavan. In 1836 George gave an affidavit which was part of a complaint written by the C.of I Rector of Killeshandra, Cavan, re an injustice to a Methodist cleric ( www.irelandoldnews.com/Other/1836/SEP.html ).
A daughter Emily Augusta was baptised at Kilmore, Co. Armagh, in 1840 and a son George aged 4 was buried there in 1847. George taught at Diamond Grange, near Kilmore, in a school run by the Cope Family of Loughall, and was involved with the Sunday School there.
The couple moved round the country side through their life, teaching and being involved in churches and Sunday Schools.
If anyone has any idea of the parentage of George and Catherine, when and where they were born and when and where they married, or details about the baptisms of their first 3 children I would be delighted to know.
