Hingerty One Name Study

  Created by CH and ChatGPT Having discovered that our surname links us to an ancient Irish clan, I have often wondered what our clan chief would have looked like? I suppose in my mind he would have looked like the image here to the left...... but how accurate is this image???? I know very little about the origins of our clan. What little I do know I shared in a previous blog  Link to previous post The first clan chief to be mentioned in a document (to my current knowledge) is Thady O Hingerdell "called O Hingerdell" i.e. he is the clan chief. He is found in a list of other clan leaders from the Cork area in a government decree called a Fiant (Fiant 3038) for 1577. They had been granted a pardon from the Crown with the payment of a fine of one cow. I do not know Thady's age in 1577, but the next mention of a chief for our clan is in relation to The Great March of the O'Sullivans on New Years Eve 1602. Is Thady still the clan chief? To find out more about the Great Mar...

Earlier this year we were invited to contribute Hingerty YDNA results to the Munster Irish Project on FTDNA given that our little clan was originally located in that part of Ireland. Two Australian and one USA Hingerty testers joined the Munster Irish project at FTDNA. One of the Admins of the Munster Project, Nigel McCarthy had a particular interest in researching the relationship between O'hlongardail/Hingerty/Harrington lines and the McCarthys and asked if he could focus on that particular relationship.  (To see this website click  here ) Nigel has compared our Hingerty YDNA results to those in the MacCarthy project and in phylogenetic trees on the MacCarthy website and in emails, he has shared his insights into the relationship between the Ohlongardails and one line of the MacCarthys. In an email he explained that, " The two principal dynasties in early 2nd millennium Munster were the O'Briens of Thormond and the MacCarthys of Desmond, though they were not all conqueri...

"Father Hingerty" is the man in whom SNP R-FTB79857 formed. He is the Most Recent Male Ancestor to seven Hingerty males from Australia, USA, Stafford and Ireland who have taken the BigY YDNA test at FTDNA. (Two more tests are pending) The estimate for his birth year moves around as more Hingerty males test and thus more SNP data is available for analysis. The estimate when the above chart was produced was 1746.  The latest estimate has moved further back in time and currently has a Mean of 1712.  Let us therefore suppose he was born sometime in the early to mid 1700s. Do we know of any Hingerty males alive in Ireland around this timeframe? The records are few and far between and often do not contain important information such as location....however, we do have a few candidates: 1. James Hingarty is listed in Betham's Genealogical Abstracts for 1749.  "James Hingarty, son Ryan, son Joseph, daugh Elinor, Kings County."  We therefore assume that James is married ...

  Hingerty Surname Origins Timeline  (as at October 2022): O hIongadail a sept (family group), named for its clan leader Ingardail, within a larger tribal group known as the Fir Maighe Fene who occupied lands in the Fermoy area of County Cork (Cova, Ballyhooly). The Ui Ingarghail were pushed south and west (Cork/Kerry) by the larger, more powerful Eonganacht tribe/s. By the 12th Century, the O'Hingerdell clan is located in southern Cork and have a Townland of Kippaghingerghill.  Is this the Hingerty Homeland?      Hingerty YDNA Match List Revelations Early Ohlongadail Clan History 1518  Donaldus Yhyngardeyll parish priest of Kilmackillogue becomes parish priest of Kilcaslain and Kadmarra, Cork  (Note Kippaghingerghill is in the parish of Kilmackillogue).   This is the first reference to an individual using this family name. 16th Century, 17th Century and 18th Century Records 1576- 1601      Elizabethan Fiants list a number of...

 Hingerty YDNA Project Report 13 March 2022 What are we trying to find out? 1. Are all Hingertys related? 2. How are they related? Context: * Hingerty is a rare surname, with few living direct male descendants. * Only 4 male ancestors have direct Hingerty male descendants alive today- William (USA), John (Australia), Patrick (Stafford), Denis (Lancashire and Ireland). * Our focus has been on YDNA and the male descendants because the connections between the 4 lines will be in the early 1800s/late 1700s which is just at the edge of usefulness of atDNA (found in both males and females, randomly recombined for every new birth), whereas YDNA is very stable and is handed down directly from father to son with mutations occurring (on average) only every 82 - 110 years.  * There have been major recent developments in the effectiveness of YDNA tests and an increase in the number of men testing from Europe and Ireland which in turn has developed the Tree of All Mankind for the R Haplogro...

O'hLongadial, Urdail, O'Hingerdell, Harrington A (very) thumbnail sketch of the early history of the  O hLongadail..........   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...

 Hingerty- How do you spell that? If you are a Hingerty name bearer, the question of how to spell your name would be very familiar to you. Having a rare surname has its perks, but one of the drawbacks is that no one knows how to spell, and often, how to pronounce your name. This issue has been around for Hingerty name bearers for quite a while and has resulted in a wide variety of spellings listed on official records and indexes that adds a level of difficulty to any search for Hingerty historical records. Let's start at the beginning: Hingerty is an Anglicised form of a Gaelic clan name and as such it changed and morphed over the years as it was variously recorded by English speaking government officials struggling to render Gaelic pronunciation into more 'recognisable' English forms.  Attitudes to writing down surnames were more 'flexible' in the past when making it sound correct was seen as more important than making it look the same each time it was written.  Ch...