Hingerty One Name Study

  Do the Hingertys have a family coat of arms or banner? This question has a number of problems. 1. Coats of arms are granted to an individual named person and their heirs. Therefore, arms are not related to, nor belong to, a surname- even though there are many suppliers of family arms paraphernalia on the internet who would have you believe otherwise. 2. Coats of arms were initially a very English affair. They developed as a system of identification- for seals, shields and the surcoats of men in armour from about the 12th century. The College of Arms was established in England in 1484. The Ireland Register of Arms was founded by King Edward VI of England in 1552. Heraldry came to Ireland with the nobles and military forces of the English. 3. Even if we allowed for the fact that a surname does not own a coat of arms and decided to adopt an existing coat of arms, which design would we adopt? Probably the closest would be the so called Harrington banner with its motto "In a firm kn...

Is this the Hingerty Homeland? Place names in Ireland often reflect the clans and families who previously occupied the land. While researching early references to the O'hlongadail name, I came across "Family Names of County Cork" by Diarmuid O Murchadha. He mentions the townland of  Kippaghingerghill  in the Bantry area of Cork. The name Kippaghingergill translates to "Long plot of land belonging to the O'Hingerdills". This is what it looks like if we zoom in a bit closer. Overlaying the "South West Ireland 12th Century Clan Map"  with Google Maps, it looks like Kippaghingerghill is in the same area as the clan map locates the O'Hingerdill. For further information re pronunciation, meaning and references to this townland, see Irish department of Heritage and Culture  for this location. The website  townlands.ie  has this boundary map and details So, is this the Hingerty Homeland? The map lines up, the names lines up.... and it does line up with...

 O'hlongardail- how do you pronounce that? If you need assistance with your Gaelic pronunciation of the original version of the Hingerty surname, go to  abair.ie Select English so you can read the instructions, type in the name  O'hlongardail Press "Say it" I wish you luck in trying to reproduce the pronunciation.  At least you will know how it it is supposed to sound! Leave a Comment or send me an Email telling me how you got on with your pronunciation. hingerty@one-name.org

Hingerty is one of the anglicised forms of the Gaelic name Ohiongardail which was often anglicised to Harrington. A map of the clans of South West Ireland in the 12th century presented on the  County Kerry Website   ( from MacLysaght More Irish Families p 236) shows O'Hingerdill (Harrington) occupying lands close to those of the O'Sullivans in County Cork (look just under the letter C in CORK). In 1577 John MacTeige O'Hingerltye of Dunbeacon, County Cork is granted a pardon on payment of a fine of one cow. When the Hearth Tax lists of 1667 are compiled in County Tipperary, there are Hingurtie, Hingortye, Hingirdill, Hingerville and Hingortye listed. How and why did the Hingertys move from Cork to Tipperary between 1577 and 1667? One likely explanation is that they were allies of Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare and fled north with him after the defeats and massacres in Cork at the end of the Nine Years War. Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare fled north with a group of 1000 soldi...

 Where do we come from?  One way to answer this question is to have a male on the direct line of interest take a YDNA test. YDNA has been passed down directly from father to son all the way back to "Adam".  YDNA markers stay very constant across time, rarely mutating. The mutations, when they do occur, mark a branching along the tree of all mankind.  When a male takes a YDNA test they receive two sets of results: 1. Their Haplogroup. The Haplogroup for Hingerty males is R-M269 which is the dominant haplogroup for western Europe. It is thought to have mutated to its present form 4-10,000 years ago.  85.4% of males in Ireland belong to this haplogroup as do 92.3% of Welsh males and 87.1% of Basque males. Wikipedia  Haplogroup Map This branch of humans travelled out of Africa to central Asia and then headed west across Europe as shown in the map at the top of this post.   So, now we know where Hingertys came from..... out of Africa to central Asia a...

  Patrick Hingerty (1811-1866) married Bridget Carroll (1817-1890) in 1835. They had six children in the Nenagh area of Tipperary from 1836 to 1850.  A Patrick Hingerty is listed in the Griffiths Valuation in 1853 in the Nenagh area- is this the same Patrick? Sometime after 1853 Patrick and Bridget emigrated to Stafford, England with two of their sons, Daniel and Michael Richard . They ran a boarding house at 12 Black Walls North and in the Staffordshire Advertiser of 7th April 1855 it was reported that they were fined 10 shillings for breaching the lodging house by-laws.  In the 1861 UK Census there are ten lodgers plus the family living in the four roomed cottage at 12 Black Walls North! Patrick died of bronchitis in January 1866. Bridget outlived her husband and all but one of her children. She died in Stafford in 1890.  Her son Daniel outlived his parents and all his siblings. He died in the Staffordshire asylum in 1917. He never married. The youngest child of ...

Denis Hingerty 1809-1864 and Anne (Nancy) Grace 1814-? were married in Tipperary in 1834. They had seven children all born in the Monsea area of Tipperary, Ireland. Six of their seven children left Ireland for Australia and/or Lancashire, England. One daughter, Anne died in Ireland at the age of 20. She may have emigrated if she had lived, or maybe she planned to stay at home to look after her parents...we will never know. The oldest two daughters Mary and Honor emigrated to Lancashire prior to their father's death in 1864. Mary married Daniel Quin in Lancashire in 1853. Mary and Daniel moved on to Victoria, Australia in 1854. Within a year of their arrival in Australia, Mary's husband Daniel died, leaving Mary with a young baby. Mary re-married William Warren in Victoria three years later. They were blessed with a large family of 7 girls and 2 boys. When Mary's brother, John, arrived in Victoria, Australia in 1868, he was in contact with his sister. Two years after his a...

 Timothy Hingerty was born around 1839 in Tipperary Ireland. From the time he was 21 years old he had a number of 'run ins' with the law. In October 1860 he was reported to be living in White Barns and was charged with destroying the surface of the Common. The charges were brought against him  by Lord Baron Dunally. Things take a much more serious turn when, in October 1865, he was charged with High Treason and placed in Nenagh Goal.  Pound Street is a short street near the centre of Nenagh. Pound Street Nenagh June 2023 Pound Street Nenagh June 2023 Fortunately, Timothy was later released when it was claimed that he and his companions had been falsely accused as reported in "The Penny Dispatch and Irish Weekly Newspaper", Dublin 11 November 1865 and the Nenagh Guardian. In November 1866 Timothy was reported to be living in Curraghmiddy (should this be Curraghanuddy?) and was charged with being Drunk and Disorderly. This starts a pattern of similar charges- In Decembe...

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  The following Hingertys appear fleetingly in USA records and then disappear.  Where did they come from? Where did they go? * Ellen Hingerty is listed in the 1870 US Census as a 55 year old from Ireland keeping house for a minister in Fall River, Mass. Is she related to Michael Hingerty the stone mason also living in Fall River? UPDATE: Death record found on Family Search for Ellen HINGARTY widow of John Quigley, died at Fall River chronic bronchitis, 12 Feb 1898, born Ireland 1829, father John. Marriage record previously located for Ellen Hingerty and John Quigley 19 July 1852 Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland. Would appear to be the same person. Her relationship to Michael Hingerty of Fall River is still unclear. * Margaret Hingerty from Ireland appears in the 1860 US Census in New Jersey, born about 1842.  * Mary Hingerty from Ireland appears in the 1860 US Census in New Jersey, born about 1841. * Maria C Hingerty born in Ireland 1851 or 1852, died in New Jersey in 1893 w...

  Michael Hingerty #1 - 1852 Naturalisation Declaration, New York Dec 1852. Made his mark rather than a signature. - 1856 Oath for Naturalisation made by Laurence Maher on behalf of Michael Hingerty of Flushing New York. Michael Hingerty #2 - 1870 US Census 30 year old stone mason born in Ireland, living in Fall River Massachusetts - 1871 Naturalisation papers- birthplace listed as Balinaglogh, Tipperary, Ireland. Birthdate 12 Sep 1837. Arrived in Boston 28 Sep 1866. Signed his name. - 1880 US Census Michael Hongerty 41 year old private in the army residing in Springfield, Mass. Born in Ireland to Irish parents. - 1884 City Directory Fall River, Mass. Stone mason. Michael Hingerty #1 # 2 (or #3?) -1885 Death Index Chicago Illinois.  50 year old.  - Illinois newspaper- 51 year old brick layer, native of "the ford" Tipperary, Ireland- with the note "Fall River papers please copy." How many Michael Hingertys do we have here? The reference to Fall River newspapers seems...

To date I have identified four family groups relating to early Hingerty arrivals in the USA. Family 1: William Hingerty is the 'founding father' of modern day Hingertys in the USA.  The first record for William Hingerty is his marriage to Rachel Kitely (some later records list her as Hannah) in Alexandria, DC in March 1801. It is very likely that all native born Hingertys alive today in the USA are descendants of William's only son, Alfred who was born in Virginia in 1804. Family 2: Three of the children of Patrick Hingerty and Mary Ryan of Toomevara, Tipperary, Ireland emigrated to the USA. * Bridget was born in Toomevara, in 1869. She arrived in New York in 1891. She married John Deegan in New York in 1897. They had nine children.  * Mary Ann was born around 1876. She is listed as being from Nenagh, Tipperary when she arrived in New York in 1896 and again in 1904 in the company of her brother Patrick Joseph. Mary Ann married Michael Shelley in New York in 1905. Th...

 The search is on for the earliest photo of a Hingerty ancestor! I have two photos to put forward. The first is a photo of John Hingerty's wife Isabella McDonald (1826-1913) John and Isabella married in Goulburn, NSW in 1845. I'm not sure when this photo was taken. Does anyone have a date for this photo? The second photo is the oldest photo I have seen of a Hingerty by birth. It was probably taken around 1887 and is a photo of John and Isabella's tenth child  Thomas Joseph Hingerty (1868-1940), his wife Elizabeth Amanda Trefle (1867-1948) and three of their sons (from left to right) Ted, Frank and Lou. Do you have a photo of an early Hingerty ancestor to share? I would love to hear from you! Leave a Comment or send me an Email hingerty@one-name.org