On February 20, 1884 a fire destroyed a row of buildings which had included Peter's boarding house. Where the family went to live then is only peculation. The only trace of them that I have found after 1879 isJames Peter, e oldest boy, at the St. Peter’s home of his uncle LP. Doer in 1891 . The 1891 ensus listsJames P. as the nephew of LP. and lists his occupation as a 'cealer.‘ ' word perhaps should be ‘Sealer", that is one who hunts seals.James Peter 'ed in Charlottetown Hospital in 1896. (Charlottetown Herald, April 8, 896.)

im or “Big Jim” also known as Red Jim, or The Red Irishman)

ifth Child of James Doyle and Margaret Lacey

im, the third son, lived on the home place, and died relatively recently—July 922. More is therefore known about him, and hence his story is somewhat nger and intertwines with that of the others.

James B. Doyle was born July 28, 1838 at Mermaid, two years after his ' y moved there. At that time the family lived in the log house, and in 'tion to babyJim, otherchildren in the family would be Margaret (9)[years] , 'erce (5), Catherine (4), and Peter (2).

Jimwas destinedto be afarmer, and to live out most ofhis life on thefarm ere he was born. When his father died in 1863, Jim bemme head of the ' g operation. His parents had accomplished much since their voyage m County Wexford. They had raised twelve children, all of whom seemed know the importance of hard work and caring about others.

Jim was twenty-five in 1863 when he inherited all of the farm except for enty acres near the shore. That twenty acres had been willed to his mother til she should die.Jim did not many until 1876 when he was thirty-eight, his ‘de twenty-one. The couple would have fourteen children over a period of years.

To help him on the farm immediately after his father died, he had brothers illiam and Moses and sisters Catherine and Elimbeth. The two youngest ' dren, Annie and John, would not be of much assistance for a while. Mary, en eighteen, may have suffered from a mental illness.

The Charlottetown Conference, the year following the death of es, would have caused some increased business for Peter and his new wife len (nee Neil) in their tavern and boarding house, as would the grand circus ich visited Charlottetown that summer. it is probable, however, that life at yles Point that summer was little altered by the festivities.Jim or his mother y have received word from Piery in Summerside telling that he was doing e as a carpenter and that he and his wife Johanna had a new daughter . At this time Piery was building a house at 89 Summer Street for omas Crabbe, a local merchant.

A memorable event for the young family occurred in the winter of 1864. n March seventh, the old chapel from St. Andrews was hauled down the ice m Mt. Stewart to Charlottetown. Five hundred men, both Protestants and

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