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iWhen I first began this work, Iwanted to determine when my Doyle ancestors farrived from Ireland. After finding and reading the obituary of my Gt. Gt. lGrandfather James Doyle (died 1863), I wondered about such things as his burial site and the names of his twelve children. I then became curious about the life ofJames and those of his children. I had some knowledge of one child, ames B. Doyle, my grandfather's father, and beyn a search for information ut the others. I did not know so much as a name of any of the others.

I beyn at the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation where I found ensus information, some baptism, and a few references to newspaper elcs reprding these people. I talked to many people, some of whom etually knew one or more of the twelve children. As I accumulated more and re knowledge of these people, I began to feel I knew them personally. Each ew fact created other questions, driving me to delve further into their lives. rsits to the Courthouse in Charlottetown provided two documents of great portance to this story: the wills of William Iaeey and James Doyle.

Since the Doyle family was a member of the St. Dunstan's Parish in

harlottetown, I spent many hours searching the St. Dunstan's Parish Regis- rs. I also spent much time at the Provincial Archives, U.P.E.I. Library, and .E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation studying land conveyances, old ewspapers. court records, old photographs, magazines and books. Much was ined by writing letters to various Provincial and State archives. The informa- on from Ireland was obtained principally through a fine gentleman named ilary Murphy, author of The Families of Wexford. It was all interesting, including the walks through the cemeteries with my TC in search of some gravestone of significance—an exercise Evelyn calls graveyard stomping“. What follows is the result of seven years' work. I hope will be of interest to other descendants of James Doyle and Margaret Iaeey, eluding my children Jennifer and Michael who have many more interesting ings to think about, at this time in their lives, than family history.

The reader will notice that I have dealt principally with those Doyles who ed on Doyles Point. The reason for this is one of time and availability of search materials.

Louis J. Daley, 1992