According to William Laccy 's will, he accumulated some property in Charlottctown and elsewhere before his untimely death at the age of 27. His will names many of the family members, but unfortunately, also creates a bit of a mystery. He calls his still-living mother Catherine. His brother Pierce Laccy records his mother as Margaret Gaffncy in his marriage record. Doug Fraser, Genealogical Coordinator at the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation suggests that the most satisfactory explanation is probably that her name was Catherine Margaret Gaffncy . The church register in Adamstown calls her Catherine Gaffncy . In 1852 Margaret Doyle , the eldest daughter of James Doyle , married John Driscoll of Lot 48 and shortly thereafter Pierce Doyle, the eldest son, then twenty-three, left home to make his way in the world, trying his luck first as a tavern operator in Charlottctown in 1856. The year before, in 1855 Charlottctown became an incorporated municipality with its own police force and the power to tax. This meant the beginnings of sidewalk construction, gas street lighting, drainage and sanitary regulation. By the summer of 1863, the Doyle family living in Mermaid consisted of the following people: James 67, Margaret 52, Catherine 29, James 25, Elizabeth 23, Mary 18, William 16, Moses 13, Annie 8, John 7. All of these people still lived in the original log house. Well aware that the farm could support only so many, three of the family had already left to make their own way in the world. In October of 1863, Pierce Doyle married Johanna Sullivan , from Clinton (), and took up residence in the rapidly-developing town of . It was also in 1863 that James Doyle , the founder of our branch of Doylcs on P.E.I , died. His death notice appeared in the Charlottctown Vindicator, a local newspaper, on December 2, 1863: At Fullcrton's Marsh, Lot 48, on the 27th ultimo, Mr. James Doyle , in the 67th year of his age. He was a native of the Parish of Adamstown, County Wexford , Ireland, and emigrated to this Island in 1816. He was a kind husband and a loving father, and beloved by all who knew him. He died after an illness of four days leaving a widow and twelve children—7 sons and 5 daughters—to mourn his irreparable loss— [Irish American, Boston Pilot, New Tablet, and Wexford papers, please insert.] (p.3) The burial site of our first Island ancestor is, as yet, unknown. He belonged to Parish in Charlottetown and the graveyard then in use was the pioneer cemetery on (Ccm#2). It is most likely that he was buried there. Unfortunately, there are no church records going back that far and many of the gravestones of that era have been removed. The records of both Vernon River and Fort Augustus churches have been checked and neither lists a James Doyle near that date. The will of James Doyle is of interest, not only from the point of view of who it includes but also who is not included. Those not included were probably "on their own" by the time their father died. Son James B . (third son) inherits the farm with all the stock of farming implements, with the exception 2H