Hingerty One Name Study

Michael Hingerty, USA October 2023 Email: hingerty@one-name.org  

  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...

  William Hingerty in the War of 1812 Aug. 23-25, 1814 Michael Hingerty, USA Leave a Comment or Send and Email hingerty@one-name.org

 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: -...