Hingerty One Name Study

  Men at Sydney Railway Station boarding train for Temora Gold Rush 1880 My father always said that the Hingertys "Came to Temora for the gold"-  is this true? John Hingerty and his wife Isabella took up the 2500 acre property "Rosegreen" about six miles from Temora about 1888.  If, they went to Temora 'for the gold', then they had left their run very late.  In the timeline that introduces the Centenary publication: Temora Yesterday and Today 1880-1980 it states the following: 1880 Gold discovered. False rush in Feb. Temora goldfield declared June 4, Townsite selected in May and surveyed in June. Gold rush 20,000 people in Temora.  1881 Drought. Highest yield of gold from the Temora field- 35,228 oz gold. 1882 Drought continued. Mother Shipton nugget discovered. 33,348 oz gold. 1883 Population down to 2,000 ...so by 1883 the Temora 'rush' was all but over..... arriving 5 years later the Hingertys were too late for this rush.... and they would have be...

My father, John William (Jack) Hingerty,  always claimed that his first flight in an airplane was with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in his Southern Cross plane in which 'Smithy' had made  the first-ever trans-Pacific flight to Australia from the mainland United States, a distance of about 11,670 kilometres (7,250 mi), in 1928. My father claimed that Smithy had visited Temora and had taken people up in joy flights in the Southern Cross. Was my father telling the truth? My father was born in December 1923.  Sir Charles Kingsford Smith did visit Temora 1932 when my father would have been nine years old. In fact he visited at least twice in that year. On Friday 3 June 1932 the Sydney Sun newspaper reported that Smithy would be leaving Temora later that afternoon en-route to Canberra to be presented with a knighthood. Sydney Sun 3 June 1932 Then again on 4 October 1932 the Sydney Telegraph newspaper reported that Smithy had just arrived in Sydney from Temora after a two ho...

  Rosegreen was the 2500 acre property, located about 6 miles from the township of Temora, owned by John and Isabella Hingerty from about 1888. (Image above was taken around Temora but is not Rosegreen) . Temora Station was 'taken up' as a sheep run in 1847 by Mr John D Macanash.  He called the station Temora after another property he had lived on in another part of the colony. There is some speculation as to the origin of the name. Macanash stated in a letter to the Warwick Argus newspaper in 1880 (reprinted in the Newcastle Morning Herald 16 Sep 1880)  that he believed the name to be Aboriginal in origin though not of the language of the people in the area now called Temora. Others quote the passage in the epic poem "Ossian" " The mighty are dispersed at Temora...soft by they rest in thy cave, O chief of Erin's wars....' and thus claim an Irish heritage. The later is more likely and Macanash was mistaken in his belief that the name was Aboriginal in ori...

  The End of the Line Part 1:  The Family of James Hingerty and Eliza Flanagan 1901 and 1911 Irish Census 1901 Irish Census: A search for HING E RTY in the 1901 Census results in seven entries, namely, James Hingerty and his wife Eliza with three children in one dwelling and two males Patrick and John in two separate dwellings. If you broaden the search to include HING A RTY, more entries appear. These relate to another James Hingerty, his wife Bridie Teresa and six of their children. This blog post will deal with the family of James and Eliza.  Patrick, John and the other James and his family will be the focus of future posts. James and Eliza: In 1901, James and Eliza were living at 9 Quarryview or Tinkers Row in Tullamore with three of their sons: John, a yard man was 23 years old, Joseph a general labourer was 22 years old and James was 18 years old and worked as a malthouse labourer. James and his sons could all read and write and Eliza could read. They were all born ...