The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, November 11, 1980-Page 7: Reagan's r oots c 7 Family, LONDON (AP) - Ronald Reag election climaxes a rags-to-emin saga that began when his gr grandfather left a stone shanty Ireland in the potato famine of 1840s, British and Irish genealog said yesterday. Further back, V said, there is royal blood. Reagan is descended from Br Boru, an 11th-century high king of Ireland and the Emerald Isle'sf national hero, according to exp from Debrett's research organiza of London and Hibernian Resea based in Dublin. A DEBRETT'S spokesman sai branch of Reagan's family treeg back to a nephew of Boru who belon to the Regans - the way the name spelled then - of Munster, one Ireland's ancient provinces. "Although that was only an unch their ancestors, it does show ro blood," he said. The investigators said the Rea family, or Regan and O'Regan in traditional Irish spelling, left Cou Tipperary, where they had exis close to the poverty line, after the G Famine of the 1840s. WHAT THE experts have pies together so far shows that Reagan1 be the ninth president of the Un States with ancestors from Ireland. The search centered on parish re ds in Ireland and gravestones in Cou Tipperary cemeteries. These sho that Reagan's great-grandfath Michael O'Regan, left the' poverished village of Doolis betw tree traced to Ireland an's 1845 and 1948, and went to England Tipperary lies at the end of a mil ence looking for work. muddy lane. The remains of eat- When he married another Irish building still stand. y in refugee, Katherine Mulcahy, in St. Until now, the locals had no idea the George's Cathedral in the London great-grandparents rubbed shou gists borough of Southwark on October 31, with the forebears of the next pres they 1852, he signed his name "Reagan," of the United States. dropping the "O" and inserting an "a." "This is great news," re rian MICHAEL'S BROTHER, a witness, Ballyporeen schoolmaster L f all could not write and the priest O'Connor said. "The only well-k first registered his name with the traditional person to come from these parts b erts Irish spelling, Regan. was the film star Pat O'Brien." tion "Michael named his father, though, arch and gave his birthplace, which is how we were able to trace him definitely to ' d a the O'Regans of Ballyporeen," Pesketh goes explained. Ballyporeen is near Doolis. nged The researchers now are working on was an important clue found on a e of gravestone in the Ballyporeen chur- chyard. The stone, topped by a Celtic e of cross, bears the legend: "Pray for the oyal souls of the O'Regan family, Coolprevane. RIP." Coolprevane is a gan village near both Doolis andVl eC * the Ballyporeen. unty DEBRETT'S SAID Reagan's gran- sted dfather, John, was born in Peckham, reat south of London, before the family emigrated to the United States.xe ' -RNfo n Ih ced Reagan's father, also named John, 'E G will was born in Illinois in July 188M and" ited brought up by his English-born Aunt Margaret after his parents died. cor- Although Reagan's parents were unty married in a Catholic church in Fulton, wed Ill., in 1904, his mother, a Protestant of her, Scottish descent, brought him up in her1j im- faith. yeen The Reagan homestead in County -'-* e-long f the their alders sideit tired Larry nown efore Daily Photo by JIM KRUZ NOW REPRESENTATIVE MARCIA Pupkiewicz, right, criticizes the actions of the Michigan legislature at an Ann Ar- bor press conference yesterday. Co-sponsored by the ACLU and NOW, the press conference focused on the legislature's insertion of a ban on state funded abortions into a bill which originally dealt with home heating assistance. NOWACLU threaten to Iilepro-abortion By JANET RAE In action against what they have called "the limits of irrespon- sibility" on the part of the state Senate, the Michigan Conference of the National Organization for Women and the American Civil Liberties Union yesterday threatened suit against the legislature for its handling of a ban on state-funded abortions. The organizations are challenging the constitutionality of the Senate's rapid re-wording and passage of a bill originally intended to provide home heating assistance. The eight- page bill was converted to a one- paragraph ban on Medicaid abor- tions just prior to the Senate's recess for elections. EFFORTS BY Lt. Governor James Brickley to rule the sub- stitution improper were defeated. "More seats fell to anti-choice in this election," said Michele Shemiot, chairperson for the Reproductive Rights Task Force of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County. "There is a severe danger of the bill passing." The bill, called SB 124, is expected to leave the House Social Servicesr and Youth com mittee on Thursday, the day after the legislature recon- venes. NOW and the ACLU believe that the re-worded bill will pass the House late this week and receive a veto by Gov. William Milliken. Should the veto be overruled by the legislature, the organizations would file suit. IN AN ANN Arbor news conference yesterday, NOW representative Marcia Pupkiewicz called the Senate's actions "both uncon- scionable and unconstitutional." She pointed out that the state con- stitution mandates that a bill may not be altered in any way that changes its original purpose. The issue, as NOW Legislative Vice-President Sue Wagner sees it, is that the Senate not only changed the intent of the bill, but also waived all the usual procedures to push the bill through in less than two hours. "It is a clear manifestation of their (anti-abortion legislators) lack of respect for the legislative process," said Wagner. Attempts by various senators to include amendments allowing for Medicaid-funded abortions in the case of rape, incest, or pregnancy resulting from a criminal act on a lawsuit minor were voted down, Warner said. Further amendments to allow for financial aid for indigent children and to prevent the bill from taking effect until the Supreme Court had a chance to rule on its germaneness, she added, were also defeated. SEN. STEPHEN Monsma (D- Grand Rapids), who initiated the conversion of the bill, said that while "the Senate'was stretching its ger- maneness rule ... this sort of thing is done by the House frequently." Monsa said that he was convinced that a bill similar to SB 124 pending in the Senate Health and Social Ser- vices Committee would not be released from committee because of the majority of pro-choice advocates in that particular group. "The majority of the Senate ought to take precedence over the majority of a committee," said Monsma. But Wagner claims that the pen- ding bill only failed passage from the committee by the vote of one senator. She thinks it would have come out of committee eventually and that SB 124 was rearranged to guarantee "an abortion bill no mat- ter what",this year. U.S. answers Iran's demands,0o (Continued from Page 1) financial aspects" raised by the Iranian terms. One U.S. official in Washington, who asked that his name not be used, told The Associated Press, "We would like to be as positive as possible, but they have to understand the legal and other complications . .. Generally, it's a positive response." 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Poet, a converted World War II troop carrier, left the port of Philadelphia on October 24 with a cargo of corn bound for Egypt. It sent a Toutine radio message as it passed Cape Henlopen, Del. No com- munications have been received from it since. A COAST GUARD spokesman in New York said two long-range C-130 search planes were plying a 13,500 square mile area east of Delaware Bay in hopes of finding the 12,000 ton American freighter. He said all ships in the area have also been alerted to be on the lookout for the Poet. The East coast was caught in the teeth of a freakish fall storm the day af- ter the Poet sailed out of Delaware Bay and some officials speculate the ship could have gone down during the fierce weather. The storm, with winds reaching up to 70 miles per hour and waves up to 20 feet high, ravaged the seaboard, sweeping several New Jer- sey homes into the ocean and one Panamainian ship,cOcean Endeavor, onto the beach. 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