Hi Betty Lou: I am also in NJ. My Fagans came from Westmeath circa 1850. Rumor has it they first lived in Jersey City, then moved to Elizabeth where they raised four children, Mary (or Maria as we've heard her called) James, Christopher and Bernard (my grandfather born 1866). I heard from a distant cousin on AOl that there was a fifth child, Margaret, who was her great-grandmother I believe, married name Adams, but she died young. My grandfather, Bernard Fagan, was married to Ellen Sheridan also of Westmeath. I've been told Fagans and Sheridans often intermarried.