From Roscrea to Wellington (via Leeds)- Ingertons in New Zealand

 

From Roscrea to Wellington (via Leeds) 

Ingertons in New Zealand

Roscrea is a market town in northern Tipperary, Ireland. It has about five and half thousand inhabitants today and it had a similar number in 1821. 

It is one of the oldest towns in Ireland. 

It has always been an important trading town as it was located on an ancient highway.

It was also home to families of Hingertys and Hingertons..... some of whom become Ingertons.

Wikipedia

We have no birth or baptism record for Thomas Hingerton but he is believed to have been born about 1810/1815 in Roscrea, Tipperary (according to later records). 

When he married Anne McDonnell in Roscrea in 1827 he was known by the surname HINGERTON.

In the years 1847, 1848, 1851 and 1853 Thomas was listed in the Griffiths Valuation as leasing land to farm in the Loughpark, Roscrea area- he is listed as HINGERTON.

However, when two of his sons were born (John 1835 and Thomas 1839), Thomas and the sons were listed as HINGERTY on the Baptismal records.

Baptism 1835 John Hingerty

Thomas became blind and in 1881 he was listed in the UK Census as living in Leeds with his daughter Fanny and her husband under the surname INGERTON. 

UK Census Leeds 1881

Thomas died in 1881 and his death record was in the name of INGERTON.

Below is a summary of the surnames used by his children- 

The adoption of the surname Ingerton seems to have been associated with immigration to Leeds.

Thomas was Hingerton in Ireland until he moved to Leeds and was henceforth known as Ingerton.

Thomas' son Laurence changed his name back and forth from Hingerton to Ingerton . Laurence/Lawrence mostly lived in Ireland but did spend time in the army in England and he used Ingerton on his army records. 

Laurence's children all lived in Ireland and they, and their descendants, all used the surname Hingerton, while their cousins in Leeds and Lancashire used Ingerton.

One wonders if the occasional use of the Hingerty surname harkened back to a known earlier form of the surname??? or clerical errors on the part of the parish priest/s, court clerk and shipping agent???

Thomas's son John (1835 -1908) moved to Leeds prior to 1866. 

It is not known what surname he used in Ireland, but, at the time of his marriage in Leeds in 1866 to Elizabeth Slaven (1844-1919) he was using the surname INGERTON and does so for the rest of his life.

He is listed as INGERTON in the UK Census of 1881, 1891 and 1901.

 His death in 1908 is registered as INGERTON. 

UK Census 1891 Leeds

All his children went by the surname Ingerton.

From Leeds to New Zealand (via Australia?)

John Ingerton's eldest son was Thomas John Ingerton. 

He was born in Leeds in 1867. 

According to his 1924 death record, he emigrated to New Zealand about 1894. 

In the New Zealand Census of 1896 he was listed as a fitter living in Jesse Street Wellington. 

I believe that the following Australian arrivals and departures relate to this Thomas John Ingerton  - these records would suggest he arrived in New Zealand via Australia.

Ingerton Tom        born 1866    Sailed from London to Sydney 1888

Ingerton Thomas    A boiler maker gives evidence at an inquest in Launceston Tasmania 1892

Ingerton (male)     born 1869    Sailed from Launceston to Melbourne 1892 

Ingerton (male)    born 1865     Sailed from Sydney to Melbourne 1894

Ingerton (male)    no birth year. Sailed to Wellington from Hobart? 1896

The one inconsistency is that Thomas John Ingerton, boiler maker, was resident in Leeds in 1891according to the UK Census - did he sail from UK to Sydney in 1888, then back home to Leeds by1891, then back to Australia/Launceston before 1892? 

However he made it to New Zealand, Thomas John was resident there by the 1896 NZ Census.

He married Mary Williams (1880-1934) in 1903.

In 1906 Thomas John Ingerton and Mary had a son also called Thomas John Ingerton. This Thomas John married Beryl Martin. They both died in the 1980s, leaving behind two sons.

Are all Ingertons alive in New Zealand today descendants of Thomas John Ingerton 

who emigrated to New Zealand about 1894?

Were there other Ingerton immigrants to NZ?

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STOP PRESS: UPDATE March 2023

An Ingerton male has taken a YDNA test. 

The Ingerton tester is a direct male descendant of Thomas Hingerton/Hingerty/Ingerton born in Roscrea, Tipperary about 1810- the ancestor detailed in this blogpost.

 The Ingerton tester's Y111 STR Marker test results are now available... and... drum roll.... he matches all the Hingerty YDNA testers!

The estimated Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor at the Y111 Marker level of testing is

That would indicate that Option 3 (of the 3 options presented at the beginning of this post) is the correct option.

We await the completion of the BigY700 results for this Ingerton tester. these results should give us a more refined Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor estimate and better indication of the relationship between the Ingerton tester and the 11 Hingerty testers.

UPDATE April 2024:

The BigY700 results are now complete.

It is currently estimated that the birth date for the common ancestor is around 1700.

Now we need a Hingerton tester and an Ingerton tester from the USA, to make more connections between these rare surnames.....