Harrington in Ireland

  Usually we find the surnames Hingerty and Harrington in southern Cork and northern Tipperary. However, there are references to both Hingerty and Harrington families in Kilkenny,Waterford and in tipperary close to the county border. Are these families related to each other? How do they fit into the bigger Hingerty/Harrington picture? The first reference to either surname in Waterford is a very early one.  In 1568 Dermot Hyngerty, a merchant of Waterford was granted English Liberty by Elizabeth I of England. This was documented in Fiant 1224 of 23 October 1568. By being granted English Liberty, Dermot was renouncing his Irish rights and agreed to enjoy all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of being a loyal subject of the English Crown. He, and his children (issue) would not be held back by the laws that restricted Irish access to employment, land etc. We know nothing more about Dermot or his family.  Note that in this period of Irish history, the only reference...

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Option 1 (Best Option): If you are a Harrington male and have taken a Big Y700 YDNA test  at FTDNA- then the answer will be there in your Ancestral Path and Globetrekker reports under the Discover Tools button. Look for the Haplogroups in your Ancestral Path:  R-Z255 R-Z16434 R-ZZ9_1 R-FT74015 ( Estimated Time to Most Recent Ancestor 900 CE) Option 2: (Cheapest Option) If you are a Harrington male and have taken a Family Finder test at FTDNA or  have taken a DNA test at Ancestry, My Heritage etc and have uploaded your raw DNA data to FTDNA,  and paid a one off unlock fee (currently $USD19) you will have your Confirmed Y Haplogroup Badge on your home page. Look for the Haplogroups:  R-Z255 (Estimated Time to Most Recent Ancestor 100 BCE) R-ZZ9_1 (Estimated Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor 500 CE) Option 3: (Not really an option at all) If you are a Harrington male who has taken a Y37, Y67 or Y111 STR YDNA test at FTDNA, you do not currently have any ...

Entering your Most Distant Known Ancestor (MDKA) on FTDNA helps others identify connections, trace lineage, and improve surname and haplogroup research.  It also assists DNA Projects by providing context for grouping related testers, identifying migration patterns, and refining ancestral origins. For Irish Harringtons, it makes a difference knowing if your MDKA came from Tipperary or Cork or Galway.....or if the earliest known ancestor was in the USA or Australia...... dates and locations are key to being able to assign lineages.... To enter your MDKA information: Log in to your FTDNA account . Click on your Account Settings (found under your name in the upper right). Select the Genealogy tab, then go to Earliest Known Ancestors . 1.   In Direct Paternal Ancestor area, enter the  name,  birth,  and death dates  and a location  of your MDKA  (if you only have an estimate of birth or death date, put a small "c" beside the approximate date) SAMPL...

   Am I an English or an Irish Harrington? How can I find out? Do you know your early ancestry? Did your ancestors come from: - the Cumbria area of England? - the Connacht (Galway, Donegal, Mayo) area of Ireland? - the Tralee/Dingle area of Ireland? - Cork or Tipperary? Your ancestors' place of origin will identify which Harrington group you belong to. If you do not know your ancestors' place of origin.....  1. If you are a Harrington male and have taken a DNA test at Ancestry, 23&Me, My Heritage, or Living DNA - you can download (take a copy) of your Raw DNA data and upload it (free) at FTDNA (for instructions and information on downloading and uploading raw DNA files  LINK ),  - pay the $19 one off unlock fee to access a range of tools  and  receive a YDNA haplogroup. 2. If you are a Harrington male and have taken a Family Finder test at FTDNA- join the Harrington Surname Project at FTDNA (free). The Admins of the project can assist you to identi...

O'hLongadail, Urdail, O'Hingerdell, HARRINGTON In the  Elizabethan Fiant 3080 of the year 1577   a John O Hengerltye is mentioned in a list of Irishmen who have been granted a pardon by the English Crown on the payment of a fine of one cow.  What is a Fiant? "Fiants were the warrants directed to the Irish Chancery, directing the issue of letters patent under the great seal and cover a wide variety of matters, including the leases and grants of land, appointments to offices, church beneficies, Irish chieftancies, etc commissions to exercise judicial or administrative authority, of the granting of pardons. The originals were lost in the Four Courts Fire of 1922. They had been calendared, indexed and published down to 1603 in the Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland (1875-1890).     Family Search Wiki Fiant 3038 lists the recipient of the Pardon as: John m'Teige O Hengerltye alias Harrengton, of Downebekhane, gent. This tells us that John ...