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ames Doyle was a native of Adamstown Parish, County Wexford, Ireland. Of his life there, little is known. According to his obituary, he was born in 1796. ne of the gravestones in the churchyard in Adamstown, my name some of is family:

DOYLE. Erected/ by/ Johanna Doyle of Adamstown/ in memory of her father] James Doyle who died 1 1th May 1817/ aged 61 yars/ also her mother Mary Doyle alias/ Dillon who died 12 Apr. 1819/ aged 60 years/ the above Johanna Meyler nee Doyle/ died 6th Oct. 1887.

AJanuary 1992 letter received from Father Thomas Doyle, Parish priest of damstown, describes the area:

Adamstown is a small village of some twenty houses. It has a fine Catholic church, presbytery, and both primary and secondary schools. We have a community center, and three shops. The hinterland is very agricultural and very good, most of it. St. Abban is the patron, and goes back to the thirteenth century. There is a stone in the cemetery which is supposed to date back that far. There is a castle close by dating from the fifteenth century built by an Adam Severeux. There is a large cemeterywith many Doyle stones dating back to the 1700's and 1800's.

OurJames may have been the son ofJames Doyle, who farmed eleven acres the townland of Raheenvarren, parish of Adamstown, formerly the curacy fNewbawn Parish. The landlord was Richard Browne Clayton. It is interesting note that Margaret Iaccy’s family lived in the same townland. also on a small

Prior to 1836, most of the Irish immigration to Canada was from southeast- m Ireland. Thirty-five thousand Irish migrated to Newfoundland between 806 and 1836. They obtained ready employment in the fishery there. The fish (1 a ready market to supply the sailors and soldiers fighting in the Napoleonic rs. When these hostilities ended in 181 5, many of the Irish moved to New runswick to work in the lumber woods, and some moved to P.E.l. These ople were called "twoboaters', due to the fact that they left homes twice fore finally settling in P.E.I. or N.B. Many Irish, however, came to the Island irectly, during these years, from the southeast ports of Ireland, principally aterford, Cork, and Dublin. (MacDonald 7)

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