Hingerty One Name Study

  The O'hlongadail Atlas 1603-1901, Tipperary for the surnames Harrington, Hingerty, Hingerton and Ingerton. An "O'hlongardail Atlas" was created using Google Maps in December 2023 (find link below) to explore the research question: Are the modern day surnames Harrington, Hingerty, Hingerton and Ingerton  linked by location and/or naming patterns in Tipperary after 1603? Background:  All 4 surnames, when found in Tipperary records, are believed: - to be variations/Anglicisations of the earlier clan name of O'hlongadail. -to have arrived in County Tipperary from the Bantry Bay/Beara Peninsular area of south west Cork as a result of the Great March of the O'Sullivans January 1603. The exact relationship between individual families using these 4 surnames is unknown and undocumented. Surname Variants: When using the Atlas, you will note the use of a variety of spellings for our 4 target surnames and a change in these variations across time. The most prevalent surn...

  What we know now that we didn't know before: 1. All Hingertys are related . We have now tested 11 Hingerty males who represent at least 2 male testers from each of the 4 existing Hingerty lines who have males alive today. They all match each other on both STR and SNP testing. That is, they all share a common direct male ancestor. 2. The Time to Most Distant Common Ancestor (TMDCA) is currently estimated to be around 1717 . This date may change as more testers are tested and more data becomes available. 3. Using this current date of 1717 as a ball park figure and estimating the number of generations needed to 'fill in the gaps' from the known most distant ancestors of each of the 4 lines, we can guesstimate that the Hingerty testers are about 7th or 8th cousins to each other. 4. Our Hingerty testers match (more distantly) Harrington males from Cork . This supports the hypothesis that we were all originally of the O'Hingerdell clan which occupied lands in the Cork townl...

UPDATE April 2024: SUCCESS! An Ingerton male descendant of Thomas Hingerton/Hingerty (who lived in Roscrea, Tipperary in the 1800s) took a BigY700 test at Family Tree DNA.  The results became available in April 2024. The results show that this descendant shares a direct common male ancestor with 11 Hingerty testers (who represent each of the 4 Hingerty family branches with living males in the world today). It is currently estimated that this common ancestor would have been born about 1700. These results show that the surnames Hingerty, Hingerton and Ingerton are closely related. In the 1700s they shared a single male ancestor. Now we need a Hingerton tester and an Ingerton tester from the USA, to make more connections between these rare surnames. If you are an Ingerton or Hingerton male, or know of one, PLEASE have them contact me  hingerty@one-name.org or chingerty@redlocust.com Are you a male with the surname Ingerton or Hingerton? We need you!