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Where did the Irish O'Regan family come from? What is the Irish O'Regan family crest and coat of arms? When did the O'Regan family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the O'Regan family history?
Irish surnames are linked to the long Gaelic heritage of the Island nation. The original Gaelic form of the name O'Regan is O Riagain. In County Waterford, the Gaelic form O Reagain is used.
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Please remember that this page is only a small extract of our complete history that includes: - Ancient origin of the name (usually pre-1100)
- Known spelling variations
- Early movement of the family name during the Middle Ages
- Noteworthy bearers from the 1500-1600s
- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
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Official documents, crafted by early scribes and church officials, primarily contained names that were spelled according to their pronunciation. This lead to the problem of one name being recorded under several different variations, creating an illusion that a single person was many people. Among the many spelling variations of the surname O'Regan that are preserved in the archival documents of the time are Reagan, Regan, O'Regan, O'Reagan and others.First found in County Meath, where they held a family seat from very ancient times.
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Our PDF Extended History includes the early history!
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our O'Regan research. Another 249 words(18 lines of text) covering the year 1172 is included under the topic Early O'Regan History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name O'Regan. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
In the 18th and 19th centuries hundreds of thousands of Irish people immigrated to North American shores. The early settlers were enticed by the promise of their own land, but they were moderately well off in Ireland when they decided to emigrate. Therefore, they were merely carrying out a long and carefully thought out decision. The 1840s saw the emergence of a very different trend: thousands of extremely desperate people crammed into passenger boats hoping to find any type of opportunity. The Irish of this decade had seen their homeland severely stricken by crop failures which resulted in widespread disease and starvation. At whatever time the Irish immigrants came to North America, they were instrumental in the rapid development of the emerging nations of the United States and what would become known as Canada. An exhaustive search of passenger and immigration lists has revealed many persons bearing the name O'Regan, or one of its variants:
O'Regan Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Teage Oregan, who arrived in Maryland in 1667
O'Regan Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- James, John, Patrick, Thomas and William O'Regan, who all arrived at Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860
O'Regan Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- Ellie O'Regan, aged 30, who arrived at Ellis Island from Timoleague, Ireland, in 1908
- Daniel O'Regan, aged 20, who arrived at Ellis Island from Drimoleague, Ireland, in 1910
- Annie O'Regan, aged 48, who arrived at Ellis Island from Skibbereen, Ireland, in 1913
- Cissie O'Regan, aged 20, who arrived at Ellis Island from Cork, Ireland, in 1920
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- Anthony O'Regan (1809-1866), Irish-born, American Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Chicago (1854 to 1858)
- Denis O'Regan, renowned photographer
- Katherine O'Regan (b. 1946), former New Zealand politician
- Mark O'Regan, judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand
- Michael O'Regan (b. 1947), co-founder of Research Machines
- Seamus O'Regan (b. 1971), Canadian broadcast journalist
- Tarik O'Regan (b. 1978), British composer
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Our PDF Coat of Arms + Extended History product is the whole package all in one. With a full color Coat of Arms along with a very detailed History, full symbolism, bibliography and settlers listed by the centuries.
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- Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
- Vicars, Sir Arthur. Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
- MacLysaght, Edward. Mores Irish Familes. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1982. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-0126-0).
- Heraldic Scroll and Map of Family names and Origins of Ireland. Dublin: Mullins. Print.
- Fitzgerald, Thomas W. Ireland and Her People A Library of Irish Biography 5 Volumes. Chicago: Fitzgerald. Print.
- Rasmussen, Louis J. . San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists 4 Volumes Colma, California 1965 Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1978. Print.
- Hickey, D.J. and J.E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History form 1800 2nd Edition. Dublin: Gil & MacMillian, 2003. Print.
- Fairbairn. Fairbain's book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, 4th Edition 2 volumes in one. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1968. Print.
- Filby, P. William and Mary K Meyer. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index in Four Volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. Print. (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8).
- MacLysaght, Edward. Irish Families Their Names, Arms and Origins 4th Edition. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-2364-7).
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