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Are all Hingertys related? YES!

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  My father always said "all Hingertys are related".  To test his assertion, in May 2021 I launched the Hingerty Surname One Name Study. This study included the use of YDNA testing of living male Hingerty name bearers to prove that they did (or didn't) share a common direct male ancestor. To date seven Hingerty males have tested, with at least one tester for each of the four existing Hingerty lines  (Australia 3, USA 2, Stafford 1, Ireland 1).  The results for the most recent tester have started to come through including the match lists for the 111 STR Markers. Green- Australia , Blue- USA , Orange- Stafford All the seven Hingerty testers are a match to each other at the 111 STR Marker level. This means that all seven share a common direct male ancestor within genealogical time. So, we can say with certainty that all Hingerty name bearers alive today share a common ancestor and are therefore related. My father's assertion has been proven! Thank you to the "Hinge...

Hengerty? Is that the same name as Hingerty?

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  Hengerty?  Is that the same as Hingerty? A search of records for the surname HENGERTY on Find My past yields the following: Britain 4 records USA and Canada 6 records Australia and New Zealand 10 records Ireland 21 records The majority of these entries are incorrectly indexed HINGERTY records, however there are a few mysteries...... 1. Australia: A male M. HENGERTY sailed on the ship "Canberra" from Townsville to Brisbane in August 1920. The typed passenger list clearly has his name spelt as Hengerty. Who is he? 2. Britain: - Dennis HENGERTY married at St George in the East, London, England. The typed index (Vol 2 Page 120) clearly has the spelling Hengerty, however it would have been typed from an original handwritten list- is this a case of a misinterpretation of poor handwriting? Who was this Dennis? - William HENGERTY is on a typed list of army deaths 1882 Allahabad, India. Mistranscribed from original handwriting? Who is this William? 3. USA: - Isabel HENGERTY (handwri...

Who were the Irish Ingertons?

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Who were the Irish Ingertons? Family 1 : Thomas and Anne McDonnell of Roscrea This family featured in a previous post  From Roscrea to Wellington via Leeds Their family spread far and wide from Ireland to Lancashire, Leeds, New Zealand and Australia. They used the names Hingerton, Ingerton and Hingerty. Family 2 : William (1838-1891) and Mary Foley (1846-1904) of Clare, Limerick and Cork. This family featured in a previous post  Who are the Ingertons of the USA?  since some of their children emigrated to the USA, while others stayed on in Ireland. There could be an Ingerton male still alive in Ireland today (born in 1934) who descends from their grandson Michael Christopher Ingerton (1898-1965)- if you know of this family line, please contact me...... Family 3 : James Ingerton 1793-1891. James lived a long life.  There are no known records for him prior to his first marriage to Helen Anworth at Longford, Ireland in February 1839.  He seems to have had a military...

Hingerty Surname Timeline

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  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...

A rogue and a soldier- who were the Ingertons of Australia?

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  Early Arrivals: The first recorded arrival of Ingertons into Australia was the arrival of John Ingerton, 50 year old farmer from Ireland and his wife Eliza. They sailed on the ship Champion of the Scot from Liverpool to Melbourne arriving in March 1857. Nothing is known of their origins and there are no further mention of them in Australian records. Where did they come from and where did they go????? ...and who are the following? Ingerton John          born 1842     Sailed from Melbourne to London 1869 Ingerton (male)     born 1853      Sailed from Adelaide to Melbourne 1878-9 Ingerton J                 born 1861      Sailed from Sydney to Melbourne 1891 DC Ingerton          paid in Perth WA in February 1895 as a policeman To NZ via Australia: I believe that the following Australian arrivals and departures relate to Thomas John Ingerton...

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

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  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 HINGER...

Immigration to Australia 1841- Myths and Misconceptions

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 "My" John Hingerty of Templemore, Tipperary, Ireland sailed from Plymouth in October 1840 arriving in Sydney in February 1841 on the ship the Jane Gifford. John, and his fellow 257 passengers, were "Bounty Immigrants" having been recruited and paid for by the Immigration Agent John Marshall- what did that mean? A very short history of white immigration to Australia pre 1841. The first European people to come to Australia to stay (not just explore and map and then leave) were convicts and their gaolers. Prior to 1824, it was a crime to 'seduce' an artisan to emigrate to Australia. Only convicts, approved families of convicts and their gaolers were allowed in. From the mid 1820s, it was decided that it would be a good idea to encourage 'men of means' to assist in the development of the fledgling colony. Such men were given large free land grants on their arrival. Labour was supplied by convicts and ex-convicts. These policies resulted in a gross gende...