o ne James 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. One of the gravestones in the churchyard in Adamstown, may name some of his family: DOYLE . Erected/ by/ Johanna Doyle of Adamstown/ in memory of her father/ James Doyle who died 11th May 1817/ aged 61 years/ also her mother Mary Doyle alias/ Dillon who died 12 Apr. 1819/ aged 60 years/ the above Johanna Meylcr nee Doyle/ died 6th Oct. 1887. A January 1992 letter received from Father Thomas Doyle , Parish priest of ■Adamstown, 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 Sevcreux . There is a large cemetery with many Doyle stones datingback to the 1700'sand 1800's. Our James may have been the son of James Doyle , who farmed eleven acres the townland of Raheenvarrcn, parish of Adamstown, formerly the curacy f Newbawn Parish. The landlord was Richard Browne Clayton. It is interesting 3 note that Margaret Lacey 's family lived in the same townland, also on a small Prior to 1836, most of the Irish immigration to Canada was from . Thirty-five thousand Irish migrated to Newfoundland between 1806 and 1836. They obtained ready employment in the fishery there. The fish lad a ready market to supply the sailors and soldiers fighting in the Napoleonic rs. When these hostilities ended in 1815, many of the Irish moved to New Brunswick to work in the lumber woods, and some moved to P.E.I. These people were called "two-boaters", due to the fact that they left homes twice before finally settling in P.E.I , or N.B. Many Irish, however, came to the Island directly, during these years, from the southeast ports of Ireland, principally Watcrford, Cork , and Dublin. (MacDonald 7) 11