Hingerty One Name Study

 Happy birthday to Jack & Tom Hingerty who would have been 98 today! Jack & Tom 70th birthday 1993 Jack and Tom were born in Temora on 23 December 1923.  John William Hingerty (Jack) always said he was born 20 minutes before his brother Thomas Patrick (Tom) Hingerty. Their mother, Margaret Jane (Peggy) Molony Hingerty, walked up to the hospital while in labour. Her feet were so swollen that for weeks prior to the birth she wore old slippers. So, she walked up to the hospital in the slippers. She was married at 31 years of age and was 32 years old when she bore the twins. Peggy's younger sister Imelda (Mel) who was 15 years old was sent from her home in Adelong to Temora to help her older sister with the babies.  Mel stayed in Temora, helped to raise the twins and their younger brother Edward Francis (Ted) who was born in April 1926. Mel later married in Temora and raised her own family there. In their younger days the twins were inseparable. They developed their o...

No Hingerty's in Ireland? A close call.......? We came very close to having no living Hingerty name bearers in Ireland today!  Every Hingerty family line in Ireland has either died out or 'daughtered out' (daughters do not pass on the family surname in our patrilineal society)- except for one.......  Monsea, Tipperary, Ireland Back in the early 1800s there was a Hingerty family in the Monsea area of Tipperary.  Stafford, England One of the boys in the family, Patrick (1811-1866) emigrated with his wife, Bridget Carroll and two of their sons to Stafford in England in the mid 1800s. All living Hingerty name bearers in Stafford today descend from Patrick's son Michael Richard Hingerty (1850-1885).  Lancashire. England Patrick's brother Denis (1809-1864)  and his wife Nancy Grace, didn't emigrate themselves, but their children emigrated to Lancashire and Australia. See blog post "One Family Three Countries"  for the story of this family. But back to our ...

A (very) thumbnail sketch of the early history of the  O hIongadail..........   The great Book of Irish Genealogies In the Great Book of Irish Genealogies Vol 6 (as compiled by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh 1645-1666 from older texts) there is a genealogy for Ingardail, the man who founded our clan: Forbasach son of Confhraochain son of Ingardail son of Brocain son of Garabin son of Riomhchon son of Murthuile son of Cuain son of Cabasain son of Continne son of Mogha Ruith However there is no mention of time or place in the genealogy. The Fir Maige Fene of Femoy O'Murchadha in his book Family Names of County Cork states that in early texts, the family name of O hIongadail (Harrington) appears in a list of family names for a group known as the Fir Maige Fene who occupied lands in the Femoy area (Feara Maigh) of what is now known as County Cork.  He states that the tuath (the people, the smallest unit of a larger group, usually a single kinship group) of Ibh Ingardail occupie...

Those who Served- Australia- World War II Updated 6 December 2021 I know of four male and two female Hingerty name bearers who served in the Australian armed services in World War II. I don't have any details on Thomas Bede's service history. William Kevin served in New Guinea. John William (Jack) volunteered and trained but never saw any action, while his twin brother Thomas Patrick was in Darwin at the time of the Japanese bombing. Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Hingerty was in the Women's Royal Australian Air Force and Hazel Savage Hingerty was in the Citizen's Army. Thank you to PH and AC who supplied the photo and information about Betty. If you know of any others who served in WWII in the Australian armed services, and/or if you have any details on Bede's service history: Make a Comment or Send an Email hingerty@one-name.org