Hingerty One Name Study

Hingerty YDNA Match! Recently a Hingerty male from the USA tested to 111 Markers for YDNA at the company FTDNA as part of the Hingerty Surname YDNA project. The results are in.......drum roll please............ We have a match! Results of Hingerty YDNA Testing The Hingerty tester in the USA matches the Hingerty tester in the UK (Stafford) and the Hingerty tester in Australia who had previously tested at FTDNA.  This tells us that the descendants of: William Hingerty (1765-1831) in the USA,  Patrick Hingerty (1811-1866) in Stafford and  John Hingerty (1813- 1889) in Australia  all shared a common male ancestor. These three lines are related and at some point in the genealogical past they shared a common Hingerty male ancestor. There is no documentary evidence to prove this connection as documents for the time period in Ireland are scarce to non existent. YDNA is therefore the only way to prove the connection. Where to next? To prove that the USA, Stafford and Australi...

 How many Hingerty name bearers are alive today? There are about 90 people with the name Hingerty on Facebook- including me! Facebook Profile photo- Chris Hingerty In 2014: According to the website  Forebears  in 2014: There were approximately 115 people in the world with the surname Hingerty.  That makes Hingerty the 1,701,480th most common name in the world.  Not very common at all!  Hingerty is classified as a rare surname. The surname is most prevalent in Ireland.  30% of all Hingerty in 2015 Hingertys resided in the USA and 23% in Australia. Living in Australia with 26 name bearers makes me One in a Million! If you are one of the 35 Hingertys living in the USA you are even rarer- 1 in 10 million 12 in England- 1 in 4.6 million. 1 in Scotland- 1 in 5.3 million. 41 in Ireland- 1 in 115 thousand. If your surname is Hingerty  Friend me on Facebook  Send me a message via Messenger Leave a Comment on this blog or send me an Email hingerty@on...

 John Hingerty of Templemore (?) On 13th February 1841 the Jane Gifford arrived in Sydney.  On board was John Hingerty, my great great grandfather.  What do we know about John and his life before arriving in Sydney? The shipping records for his arrival on the Jane Gifford in 1841 tell us: * A Bounty Immigrant, brought to Australia by John Marshall, who was the agent for the UK government Immigration Committee. * Farm servant. * 28 years of age i.e a birth year of 1813 * A native of  Templemore, Tipperary, Ireland. * The son of Eizabeth (no father mentioned) * On the same ship as Margaret Hingerty of Toomevara, Tipperary, Ireland. Daughter of William Hingerty and Mary Quinlan. Margaret was later followed to Australia by 2 sisters and a brother, all of whom are listed as being from Toomevara with parents William Hingerty and Mary Quinlan. Did Margaret and John know each other? Did they plan to travel together? Or was it simply a case that the Immigration Ag...

Using YDNA Hingerty Match List Surnames to Explore Hingerty Surname Origins Introduction A male usually inherits his surname from his father.  He also inherits his father's YDNA which has been handed down from father to son for centuries, only rarely mutating across the ages.  Theoretically every male's surname should stretch back in an unbroken line back to when the surname was first established about 1000 years ago. However, life doesn't always reflect the theory. A male YDNA tester has a 50% chance that he has inherited the YDNA of the initial bearer of his surname.  In the other 50% of cases the linkage over those 1000 years, back to the initial surname bearer, has been interrupted by adoption, illegitimacy, intentional name change, taking of a maternal surname due to inheritance or marriage conditions etc  Ireland was the first country in Europe to adopt inherited paternal surnames about 1,000 years ago. Native Irish surnames are closely aligned to the ancient...

Melancholy Doings in Nenagh 31 October 1849 Thank you to TM, Harrington/Hingerty researcher in UK, for providing the image and bringing this interesting episode to my attention. Nenagh R.C. Chapel in 1849 - built between 1839 and 1841. Nothing now remains of this structure. Melancholy Doings in Nenagh-  as reported in the Tipperary Vindicator Saturday 3 November 1849 The well-nigh unprecedented and exciting circumstances of a Catholic Clergyman calling for the interference of police and military in order that by force he should open a Catholic Chapel, occurred on the morning of Wednesday in Nenagh.  Before daybreak the inhabitants were aroused from their slumbers by " The measured tread of marching men"  a large body of police having been called in from the neighbouring stations on the previous night, the 79th Highlanders being also placed at the disposal of the Resident Magistrate, Captain Plunkett, and all the pomp and circumstance of war being had recourse to for the p...

 Patrick Hingerty on The Old Turnpike Road Nenagh  (and Stafford?) Old Turnpike Rd, Nenagh (the row of houses on left hand side of the road before Lot 12) Patrick Hingerty was both a lessor and a tenant on Old Turnpike Road on the edge of Nenagh, Tipperary in 1848 and 1852. In records compiled in 1848 to prepare for the Griffiths Valuation, Patrick was renting a house from Dr Robert Firth while at the same time renting out the smaller house next door to Sally McGrath. A pencilled note in the margins tells us that both house had been recently thatched. In the Valuation published four years later in 1852, Patrick is still renting a house from Dr Firth, but his own tenant next door is now Margaret Connell. Why did they live in a rented house whilst owning the house next door? Is this the Patrick Hingerty who emigrated to Stafford, England with his wife, Bridget Carroll and two of his sons (Daniel and Michael Richard) sometime before 1855? Abraham Harrington One piece of evidence...

Michael Hingerty of Millbrook Tipperary Google street view of Millbrook area 2021  In the Griffiths Valuation of 1850, Michael Hingerty is listed as the tenant of a house and land in the townland of Millbrook, Tipperary, valued at 3 pounds and 9 shillings per year. It is marked as Lot 11 on the map. The Griffiths Valuation was the first full scale property evaluation in Ireland. It was managed by Richard Griffith and was published between 1847 and 1864. While it was designed to place a value on all property for the purposes of setting rents, it operates for family historians today as a listing of Irish households during this period as no other sources remain for the period. The final Valuation was informed by data gathered into House Books, Revision Books and other records, some of which still survive. Maps accompanied the Valuation. (See  Ask About Ireland  to search for a surname and find maps and records from Griffith's Valuation.) The entry for Michael is below. Note...

 O' Hingurdils- Irish Refugees in Spain When we last left the story of the OHingurdils in Spain, we knew that Dionisio was fighting in the Galician army, but we didn't know what happened to the others in his clan. Further research has placed the arrival of O'Sullivan Beare and his supporters in La Caruna into a bit more context and might offer an explanation of their fate. Between 1602 and 1608 it is estimated that at least 10,000 people from Ireland fled to the north west of Spain (Galicia). They gathered in the harbour city of La Caruna where the Governor of Galicia, who supported their cause, resided.  Irish refugees were flooding in at such a rate that a new position was created 'Protector of the Irish' to try to bring some sort of order to the situation. Between 1604 - 1606 (when payments ceased) payments were made by the Spanish Court to at least 5,000 of these Irish refugees. The boats kept arriving, the authorities and the city were being over run with so ma...

Martin Hingerty or Harrington? Martin Hingerty was baptised 16 September 1846.  His parents were Ned Hingerty and Judith Tierney. Their residence was Castletown, Tipperary. Martin Hingerty of Crimler was charged with being drunk on the streets of Roscrea town on 25th April 1876. Martin  Hingerty  married Catherine Hogan in June 1890 in the Roscrea registration district. Martin Hingerty and Catherine Hogan registered a daughter, Johanna Hingerty in 1891 (Roscrea).  Martin Hingerty and Catherine Hogan registered a daughter, Norah Hingerty in 1893 (Roscrea). Martin Hingerty and Catherine Hogan registered a son, Edward Hingerty in 1895 (Roscrea). 1901 and 1911 Census Martin Harrington, wife Catherine Harrington , daughters Johanna and Nora Harrington and son Edward Harrington  were listed in the 1901 and 1911 Census, living in Lisduff, Tipperary. Martin Hingerty of Lisduff registered his various dogs in 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1920. Martin Hingerty of ...

What happened to the O'Hingurdils after they arrived at the end of their dramatic  14 day march north with O'Sullivan in December 1602? Further research by MH, a Hingerty researcher in the USA, has uncovered the next chapter of the story. (To read the full article go to:  O'Sullivan Beare in Spain: Some Unpublished Documents by M K Walsh  ) From Ireland to Spain When the Nine Years' War came to an end in 1603, many Irish lords were pardoned and re-instated by King James. However, Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare was refused a pardon. His estates were confiscated, he was refused freedom of movement and lived in constant fear of imprisonment and death. O'Sullivan and his followers were forced to remain hidden in the mountains.  In 1604 O'Sullivan and "18 Irish gentlemen" made their escape from Ireland by sea. They landed in France and spent a short time in Bordeaux and then moved on to La Caruna and sought the protection of the Count of Caracena, the Gover...

 Hingertys in the Tithe Applotment Books 1823 - 1837 Background In 1823 an Act of Parliament decreed that payment of tithes (taxes to be paid to maintain the Church of Ireland) was to change from payment in kind to payment in cash. This change required a valuation of the whole of Ireland to determine what cash amount needed to be paid by each tenant. The amount payable was determined by size and value of the land. For the first time grazing land was included in the calculations along with arable land for crops. Previously only crop land had been eligible for the tithe payment. The Tithe Applotment Books This listing was the first complete register of the people of Ireland in relation to the working and tenancy of the land. As there are no existing Census records for this period in Ireland, as church records are patchy and Civil Registration of births, deaths and marriages was not yet established, the Tithe Applotment Books are very valuable for locating families within Ireland duri...

 Hingertys at Leuven University, Belgium In the European Summer of 2005, my husband and I received scholarships to attend a Summer School at the Catholic University of Leuven. It was a wonderful experience which we will never forget. Little did we know, however, that I was not the first Hingerty to attend this university..... Today, while trawling through journal articles looking for references to Hingerdill, I found that Leuven University had hosted two previous Hingerty students in the years from 1760 to 1782! According to Jeroen Nilis  Irish Students at Leuven University 1548-1797  Irish students started attending Leuven University from 1548 onwards. Many were studying theology, with some studying medicine and a few studying law.  Latin was a pre requisite.  Some students attended pre university courses to prepare them for entrance to the formal university degree courses if they had not been able to attain the pre requisites prior to admission. Once...

  Finding Locations for Hingerty References in the Tipperary Hearth tax Lists of 1665-7 Update: Many thanks to TM, a Harrington/Hingerty researcher in the UK who has reworked the map supplying modern names and locations for many more of the Hingerdill places named in the Hearth Tax Lists. His maps have replaced my earlier incomplete map. The additional information supplied by TM has been added in italics to the list below. Side note: Having always thought of the Hingertys as being from north Tipperary, it has been an interesting exercise to map them in the more southerly Cashel area in the mid 1600s.  Just when you think you have it all worked out, the ancestors throw another spanner in the works and keep us guessing......and researching...... Hearth Tax Lists of Tipperary 1665-7  http://www.ormondhistory.ie/Tipperary%20Hearth%20Money%20Rolls.pdf   “Tipperary’s Families: Being the Hearth Money Records for 1665-6-7”  Edited by Thomas Laffan, Dublin 1911...