Hingerty One Name Study

 The Harringtons of Templederry, Tipperary (Thank you to local Templederry historian Matt Ryan,  Marian Harrington of Templederry and Peter O'Flanagan, grandson of Ellen Mary O'Sullivan,  a researcher of Templederry O'Sullivan connections for much of the information in this post) Templederry (red) and Hingerty locations in the area (yellow) Background: On New Year's Eve 1602 Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare led 1000 soldiers and followers out of Glengarriff, Cork to escape certain massacre. They were attempting to reach sanctuary at Leitrim.  Among the marchers were the clan chief O'Hingerdell, his brother and an unknown number of O'Hingerdell clan members. The marchers were constantly attacked and harried along the way and suffered many privations due to lack of food and the harsh wintery conditions.  Fourteen days later, only 35 people (including 1 woman) made it to safety in Leitrim.  Others had died or were left for dead along the way. Some may have deserted ...

  The Great Hingerty Head Count is on! The website forebears.io reported that there were 115 Hingerty name bearers alive in the world in 2014. (Note we are talking about Hingerty name bearers not Hingerty descendants) The forebears.io website does not disclose which data sets or definitions they used for this calculation, so the accuracy of their figure cannot be assessed. Since we are such a rare breed, it would be great to know just how many of us there are today. and if the forebears.io distribution numbers are correct....... and thus the Great Hingerty Head Count was launched! First, the definition :  for the purposes of this count,  A Hingerty Name Bearer is someone who is: * Alive as at 30 June 2023- children and adults included * Was born with the surname Hingerty and/or * Acquired the Hingerty surname through marriage (and use it as their surname) Using the tree that has been complied over the past four years as part of the Hingerty One Name Study and checking in...

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!

 The Big Y 700 test results for tester SH from Australia are now in.... and the good news is that they have revealed a SNP (a YDNA mutation/variation) that most likely formed when John Hingerty (1813 Tipperary-1889 New South Wales) was conceived! Our Hingerty YDNA tree now looks like this (the new SNP being marked with a star) Thank you to SH who tested- his results have made this identification of the "John Hingerty" SNP possible. As stated in the January YDNA report: Our focus now needs to turn to the Irish and Stafford lines. You need two testers to both be positive for a SNP and all others to be negative, for a new SNP to be named and dated.  To achieve this state of affairs you need two men who are closely related to test.   This has yet to be achieved on the Irish and Stafford lines as there are to date only one tester on each of these lines.  Our research cannot progress without these additional testers. Further testers on these two lines will assist us to: -...

Background: We currently have nine Hingerty BigY700 testers representing the four exisiting Hingerty lines with living Hingerty males. We have the results of eight of the tests, the most recent (BH, USA) becoming available this month (January 2023). The ninth test (SH, Australia) was only taken and posted to the lab in Texas in late December. We will have those results in a few month's time. We are using a combination of: * Genealogical data * STR data from YDNA testing (111 Markers) * SNP data from YDNA testing (BigY700)  to answer our two research questions  Are all Hingertys related?  How are they related? Thank you to our "Hingerty Heroes" JH, PH, MJH, SH, BH, MH, WH, DH and RH for taking the YDNA tests and allowing our research to progress. (Click  here  to view a video presentation introducing you to YDNA and the Hingerty YDNA Project.) What the results have revealed to date: All Hingertys are related: STR Evidence: All Hingerty testers match at the STR 11...

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...

  Why do we think that Denis and Patrick were brothers? I have found no direct documentary evidence that they were brothers ....... Online trees that have them as brothers have no sources for the relationship. They were both married in the Monsea, Tipperary area in a similar time period. Denis married on 6 February 1834 with residence listed as Loghorna. I have been unable to find this location on Google maps- there is a Lahorna.... could this be the same place?? Witnesses to the marriage were Patrick Hogan and Mary Wh (indecipherable). Patrick married on 25 February 1835 with residence listed as Drumineer which is 1 1/4 hour walk from both Monsea and Lahorna (opposite directions). Witnesses to his marriage were William Gleeson and Catherine Quirke. Therefore, while they were both married in the Monsea parish area, it does not appear that they were both living in the same immediate area and did not share close friends or relations as witnesses to the nuptials, nor were they witnes...