the lacey family appear in the next generation among the Doyles. Some will appear in the fourth and fifth generation. It is possible that Mary lacey, who married John Mutch of Mermaid, was the Mary contained in the Adamstown register, baptized Dec. 10, 1817, a child of Pierce Iacey and Catherine Gaffney.

A headstone marking the grave of Piery Iacey, Margaret's father and Iawrence Iacey, Margaret’s brother, who died at age nineteen, still stands in the old Roman Catholic cemetery #1 on the St. Peters Road. William and his mother are probably buried there also.

Many of the Irish immigrants were too poor to erect gravestones to the memory of their loved ones, andthe church records of burials back then either never existed, or have been lost. For these reasons it is difficult to know where people were buried.

In 1828 James Doyle, thirty-two years old, married a seventeen year old Charlottetown native, Margaret Iacey. (Catholics at that time did not have the right to vote, but they were allowed to marry!) The wedding would have taken place in the first wooden church, erected in 1816 at the site of the present Basiliea. A simple log structure, this church was built with money solicited from local Catholics. One who give a donation of 5 pounds (a considerable amount in those days) wasJohn Doyle. The officiating priest would have been Father Fitzgerald who served in Charlottetown during that year. (Burke 7)

James by that time would have a friend to act as best man, possibly the above mentioned John Doyle, a tailor and businessman who ran a hotel, The Hibernia, located where the Golden Wok Restaurant now stands, on the comer of Pownal and Grafton Streets. Margret lacey’s recently widowed mother would no doubt be in attendance, possibly with her reluctant twelve- year-old son William in tow. The small wedding party may have gathered at the hotel, and had dinner served by John's wife Catherine. The bride and groom could well have spent their wedding night at that establishment, or simply gone to James' current lodgings.

The farm which would become known as Doyles Point, was occupied at this time by an Irish family from County Cork by the name of Daley. The Point farm was leased in 1799 by Jeremiah Dailey, a farmer who later lived in Charlottetown. He is listed as a 'gentleman', suggesting that he was a man of some means—an owner of property. Jeremiah had purchased the lease from James Cunningham, one of the original proprietors of Lot 48.

(After the British defeated the French, and the French settlers [Acadians] were expelled in 1758, the British Government decided to hold a lottery for the land of St. John's island [REL]. The island had been surveyed into 67 Townships (or lots), of approximately 20,000 acres each by Surveyor General Samuel Holland in 17644765. Sixty-four of these lots were actually “up for grabs". Those eligible to enter the lottery were people of influence with the king. Some were politicians, othersmilitary men, still others were merchants or civil servants. The lottery was held in London England July 23, 1767. James Cunningham and his partner Samuel Touchet drew hot 48. This meant that they owned Lot 48, provided they fulfilled certain obligations, and were called 'proprietors'.)

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