Family: The Joyce Family Fishermen
Pictured below are the fore-fathers of Captain Jason Joyce, and their families, spanning 8 generations.
Above
left: James Joyce III, my great great great grandfather and 3rd generation
lobsterman. Above center: L.V. Joyce - my Great,
Great Grandfather and 4th generation lobsterman. Above right: Ross and
G. Carlton Joyce (my great grandfather as a child).
Above right: Captain L.V. Joyce, 4th generation fisherman.
My great grandfather, still doing what he loved, fishing, at 82!
Above left: Robert Joyce, my grandfather and 6th generation lobsterman. Above center: "Young" Carlton Joyce, my dad. Above right: My father, Carlton Joyce, 7th Generation lobsterman
Above left: Young Carlton Joyce getting ready to set a load of traps in the 60s.Above right: Captain Jason Joyce, as a young'n with his dad, grandfather and sister, Letitia.
Captain Jason Joyce tending traps aboard his boat, the Andanamra.
Above left: Sunrise aboard the F/V Andanamra. Above right: "Jason J" - one of Young Carlton's boats, built in the 70's from Beals.
Above left: Carlton Joyce's 42' Duffy finished by Bridges Point Boat Yard and rigged for shrimping. Above right: A Ronald Rich boat, built in Bass Harbor for G. Carlton when he was 78years old.
The Island . . . Then and Now: