Does anyone have information about this man and his family before they came to the US? Here's what I have: Terrance Fagan, b. 23 January 1767; d. 20 January 1852 in Holly Twp, Oakland Co, Michigan. I believe he came from Drougheda, County Louth, Ireland with his wife Bridget Boylin, b. c 1775 in Ireland, and sons Peter, b. 23 August 1808, John b. c 1810 and Thomas b. c 1817. There may also have been a daughter Nancy. They probably came in the 1820's. He apparently returned to Ireland in 1836, for there is a passenger record for him and Mary Fagan and extra baggage arriving on the "Sarah Sheaffe" in May, 1836. This record was printed in a newsletter of the Detroit Society for Genealogy, Research 5:10 (Aug-Sept 1942) p 208 (Lancour 252). The first record I have of him buying land in Michigan is in October, 1835, though I believe the family was in the US for several years before that. When the family history was recounted at a family gathering in 1932, the "historian" said Peter first went to Michigan in 1832. Peter worked on the Erie Canal, so they may have lived in New York during the period around 1830. It is my understanding that they were Catholic. But son Peter married a woman with a Quaker background; John and Thomas never married. But Peter made up for their lack of children - he and his wife Eliza had fourteen children. Any tidbits would help. Thanks! Shirley Roemer