I an trying to obtain further details about Charitee FOREE, who I believe married into the PRESTON family in or around Cork in the early 1800s. An elderly relative wrote (in 1980) "my mother's great grandmother was called Charitee FOREE and was proud of her Huguenot ancestry. She said her family were silversmiths and had some silver spoons with C.FOREE engraved on them and that she was told that an earlier ancestor had 'come over in a barrel of nuts'.

Any suggestions?

Morning Richard
You should first take a look at-
www.familysearch.org

simply entering the Last Name-
foree

and selecting-
Exact Spelling

A number of Forees come up for Cork; but Charitee is not amongst them.

Judging by the responses for Continental Europe, the name has South Dutch connections, which may link it back through Belgium to France and the Huguenots.

Regarding the Silversmith aspect, if the name "Foree" was directly engraved, this suggests "family silver" rather than "silversmiths"; but I may be wrong.

Go to-
www.google.com

Search for-
+"foree" +silversmith

None appear to be recorded in Web sources as silversmiths; but there is a response of interest, the Pigot Directory for Cork 1825, contains a Foree - plumber.

So at least there is a metalworking connection; and silver ore is often found with lead ore.

You may have to pursue locally-held records in Cork, to obtain more information.

Alex Dow

Foree is a french huguenot name. We Foree's of Dallas, Texas can trace ourselves back to Pierre Foure of France. Foure was changed to Foree in the usa. Also, Pierre settled in Mankin County Virgina.

Elizabeth