of 20 acres on the point, which James wills to his wife Margaret (lacey) " . . .for the term of her natural life. After her death to revert and become the property ofmy sonJames.’ His wife Margaret also gets two cows and two sheep and the rth end of the dwelling house should she want it.

The daughters received as follows: Catherine, (born 1834), 20 pounds; ' beth (born 1840), Mary (born 1845), and Bridget Ann (born 1855). 2 unds each. Sons William (born 1847) and John (born 1856) will have lothing and schooling until they can do for themselves.

....It is my order that my family do live peacefully and agreeably together and I leave the injunction on my children, and particularly my son James. to be kind to his mother and to keep her comfortable the remainder of her life. To my son William, when he shall come of age, I bequeath the sum of twenty pounds. I order that none of these bequests be recoverable until alter the space of five years from this date. To this my last will and testament I have set my ...and seal this twenty-sixth (by of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three.

Signed James X Doyle mark Witnesses; Patrick Duffy and Matthew Murphy (See Wills vol.6 p.314 PEI Law Courts or Archives)

it seems thatJames looked after the children who were still living on the . The other siblings were on their own at that time: Margaret had married hn Dn'scoll and was living on a farm in Mount Herbert, Lot 48, only a couple miles from Doyles Point; Piery, a earpenter was living in Summerside and married; Peter, a tavern operator, lived in Charlottetown on Richmond reet; iawrence Patrick learning the blacksmith trade, possibly at aWest River ' e shop near the home of his future bride; Moses, since he is not ntioned, had probably left home, although he was only eleven. (He wiu ow up as a painter in Charlottetown in 1870.) James must be given top marks r taking are of business properly. He perhaps realized that dividing the land ng his children was not a reasonable thing to do. As he knew from pcrience in lreland, tiny farms are not vhble. At this point, I will depart fromanexaminationofthe familyasawhole and k at the life of each of the twelve children in as much detail as infomtation rnuts.

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