The Tingles 1654 - 2002

by Byron "Bear" Redmond

Authors Note:

This work, while most certainly incomplete. Is the most up to date information that I could find in my research. In the past several months since my first version, I have uncovered quite a bit of interesting information, A lot of it is quite historical in fact. Because this work is for William Owen Tingle, and his family, I have included his wife Vera and her family.I would like to add that this work is a labor of love for "Pop" and "Mama B". And I hope that the rest of the family enjoys discovering their ancestry as much as I did uncovering it.

As I stated this is a much incomplete work, while I have uncovered a wealth of information, even professional genealogists have yet to uncover the Tingle history beyond Hugh Tingle. It is believed that he may be the son of Symon and Isabelle Kitchin, there is no actual documented proof, just supposition from parish registers in England. The following is a portion of an article printed in the genealogical periodical "Tingle Descendants, Vol. 3 No. 1, 1989 The supposition follows as such:

Symon Tingle and Isabelle Kitchin (married 20 Oct. 1647 Winterton, Lincolnshire) seem to have had three children: Hugh, baptized 1646 and subsequently died. Ann, baptized 1648 Then they probably moved from Whitton, where their first two children were baptized, to Belton-in-Axholme. There the third child, also named Hugh, was baptized in 1654. No burial records for any Tingles are listed in Belton for the period 1663-1690. Could this Hugh, baptized 1654, be the Hugh Tingle who came to Maryland in 1669, at the age of 15? It is possible but unproven. Mr. Mark Bonthrone developed this information; a professional genealogist in London developed this information about the Tingle family in England. He has inspected various parishes Registers, many of which he reports are in a "deplorable condition due to the passing of time and a few accidents."

It is probable that we will never be able to prove the parentage of Hugh Tingle who came to Maryland in 1669. But one point seems clear, Hugh Tingle was an Englishman and he most likely came from Lincolnshire, which is the country south of Yorkshire, bordering Nottingham on the west. And from these old parish registers we know that the name Tingle is indeed an old English name, originally spelled TYNGYLL. Not long ago, my wife Elaine thought it a good idea to do a family tree for her Grandfather William Owen Tingle. As I was already in the midst of researching my own family tree and getting absolutely no where, I thought that it would be a great idea. Little did I know how much information I would find and how many people I would come in contact with. Those people have provided me with a wealth of information and I owe them all great Thanks. Amongst them, is my mother in law Alice, she has given me those ounces of stuff that help genealogists plod along a little longer.

I am by no means a professional genealogist, but I do feel that I have taken the first baby steps of a genealogical researcher. There are many other people to mention and there are some that were very helpful in my work that I cannot mention. As we all have our bad days, mine came when the back up disk that I kept all my information on decided to reformat itself, trashing all my valuable information. So having to go back to the proverbial drawing board, I re-researched and re-typed and re-wrote most of my data. Along with buying a CD burner so I can back up to a better data format.

A lot of the people I mentioned I met on the Internet, my biggest "gun" in the research quest. Through e-mail and genealogical forums we sent our information back and forth. With questions as to the validity of one relationship to the successes of connecting a family line. I invite all family members to send me any information that you might have to help with this research. Any clippings, obituaries, pictures, anything at all please send them and I will acknowledge you in this endeavor. And to those who have already helped Thank You so very very much. Well without any further delay lets get on with the story...
Note: The following dissertation involves my wife's direct ancestry. Following pages will outline other family branches.



Origin of the name Tingle
The name Tingle appears to be of English inception, Tingle, or Tinghill, originally denoted a dweller at the Meeting or Court Hill, from the Old English "ting", meaning a meeting or court of justice. On the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379, there appears a Ricardus Tynghill. By the fifteenth century the name had become Tyngyl. Numerous persons interested in their Tingle ancestry have visited England and have chronicled entries of Tingle names from parish registers in Yorkshire and other provinces. These records are on file in the Genealogical Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (The Mormon Church) Salt Lake City, Utah.

Our First American Tingle
Hugh Tingle was one of seven persons 'imported' into Maryland on the 26th of April 1669 by Christopher Rousby who commissioned under Lord Baltimore received 350 acres of land. Hugh was fifteen years old when he arrived aboard the ship "Supply" under the command of Ships Master Thomas Pieghen, sailing from the port of Whithy, England, a port situated on the North Sea coast, not too far from the Yorkshires. Hugh doesn't show up again in any records until 1683 when it is recorded that Hugh Tingle married Elizabeth Powell. Elizabeth was the daughter of Walter Powell and Margaret Berry. Walter Powell was a Quaker and one of the highest classes of early settlers in Somerset County.

This part of the county became Worcester, Md. In 1742. Hugh and Elizabeth were married by Mr. Traile, Minister, "ye twenty first day of December, Anno Domini, one thousand six hundred eighty three." William Traile was one of the earliest Presbyterian ministers. He arrived in the Colonies shortly after Reverend Frances Makemie, founder of the Presbyterian Church in America. Hugh and Elizabeth Tingle started a family immediately, the Old Court record book of Somerset County shows this interesting item - "Samuel Tingle Son of Hugh Tingle borne of Elizabeth his wife ye 17th day of September one thousand six hundred eighty & four." It is rare to find a marriage and birth record in an official colonial court volume.

Hugh and Elizabeth appear to have lived at first on part of a tract called "Powell's Inclusion." The record of its survey reads: "Powell's Inclusion, 256 acres, surveyed May 2, 1686 for Walter Powell, back from the seaboard side. 128 acres possessed by Hugh Tingle in his wife's right. The residue by Walter Evans. Walter Evans was Hugh's brother in law having married Mary Powell, sister of Elizabeth Tingle. Their father, Walter Powell, in his will, gave these two daughters this tract and other land. Walter Powell had numerous plantations that he left his children. These include: Greenfield, Polls Adventure, Winter Quarters at the Seaside, Hilliards Discovery, Powell's Mill Pond, Olivers Portion, and Friends Gift at the Seaside. Sources: Books "Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland" and "A Somerset Sampler." Hugh Tingle, on the 28th of November 1689 signed the "Address of Loyalty to King William and Queen Mary. The following is the Address.

To the King and Queen most Ext. Majty. Wee your Majesty's Subjects in the Somersett and Province of Maryland, being refreshed and Encouraged by your Majestys great and prosperous undertakings, and by your late gracious letter to these of this Province, do cast ourselves at your Majesty's feet humbly desiring and hopefully expecting the continuance of your Maj care of us, as our Case and Circumstances doe or may require, in the confidence whereof wee resolve to continue (bye the grace of God) in the Profession and defence of the Protestant Religion and 3 your Majesty's Title and Interest against the French and other Papists that oppose and trouble us in soe just and good a cause not doubting but your Majestys wisdom and clemency will afford unto us all needful suitable Aid and Protection for securing our Religion, lives and liberty under Protestant Governors and Government, and for enabling us to defend ourselves against all Invaders. Thus praying for your Majestys long and happy Reigne over us, Wee know ourselves to bee (with due Reverence and sincerity.) Your Majestys Loyall Obedient and humble Subjects

(Here 238 men of the area sign the document, the above document was typed in the way it was originally transcribed and Hugh Tingles signature looks like Hugh Jingle)

A few years later, on the 18th of July 1693, Hugh Tingle purchased from Thomas Fenwick and Mary, his wife, (for whom Fenwick Island was named) 200 acres of a tract called Dumfreisa for 4,000 pounds of tobacco. Lying in the northeastern part of what is now Worcester County and near Fenwick Island, this land was part of a larger tract of 600 acres called Duinfreise. Hugh Tingle adopted the name Dumfreise for his plantation, which in those days carried a wider connotation than a present day farm since it had to provide all the necessities of life. The tax list of 1724 for the Baltimore Hundred in Somerset County contains the names of Hugh Tingle, John Tingle, and Hugh Tingle Jr. The latter two were sons of Hugh Tingle and therefore at least 16 years of age, which at the time was the taxable age.

Samuel Hugh's eldest son had died in 1721, and Daniel Hugh's youngest son was not yet 16, therefore they were not carried on the list. 4 Hugh Tingle, through purchase and his wife's right, acquired the following parcels of land which were charged to him on the Land Office Proprietary Debt Books for Quitt Rents of Somerset County at the time of his death in 1733: Powell's Inclusion 128 acres Hilliard's Discovery 75 Dumfries 200 Parker's Denial (aka Rumley Marsh) 100 Scottish Plot (aka Layfield's Lot) 400 This gives Hugh a total of 903 acres. It would appear that Hugh Tingle was a well respected and substantial citizen as shown by his will and by certain affidavits submitted by his neighbors after his death, relative to the lengthy boundary dispute between William Penn's heirs and the various Lords Baltimore, concerning the Delaware Maryland line. One deposition refers to "Hugh Tingle as an 'antient' man of good credit who lived within a mile or two of Fenwick Island."

Most, if not all of Hugh Tingle's lands were originally in Somerset County, Maryland. This portion eventually became part of Worcester County in 1742. However, when the boundary dispute between the colonial proprietors was finally settled by the Chancery Court in England, based on the now famous Mason and Dixon Line, and the decree was signed by King George III in 1769, nearly all of Hugh Tingle's land became situated in Sussex County, Delaware. This event, coupled with the rising problems between the colonies and the mother country that precipitated the American Revolution, makes research in these geographic areas both challenging and frustrating.

Hugh Tingle made his will on the 28th of April 1723 and it was probated on the 22nd of August 1733, showing that he had died in the summer of the last named year. His wife, Elizabeth, survived him by about thirteen years. Her will, dated the 18th of May 1740, was proven on the 19th of July 1746. Eight children were born to Hugh and Elizabeth Tingle as far as is known, all of whom are named in his will:

Samuel Tingle, b. 17 September 1684, m. Sarah Cobb
Hugh Tingle Jr.
John Tingle m. Mary
Margaret Tingle m. Richard Hudson
Sarah A. Tingle m. Charles Collins
Elizabeth Tingle m. John Sauls
Daniel Tingle m. Mary
Mary Tingle m. William Cobb

This information is from "Hugh Tingle" by J. Seeger Kerns. And other sources found on the internet.
Now with the story that I wrote after completing my research . To this date the information gathered shows that a gentleman named Hugh Tingle was imported into Maryland on the 26th of April, 1669. He arrived aboard the ship "Supply" from the Lincolnshire area of England. Hugh appears to have been a farmer who worked for Mr. Walter Powell and his wife Margaret Berry. Hugh married their daughter Elizabeth Powell at Snow Hill, Worchester, Md. On the 22nd of December 1683. And the couple settled in Somerset, Md. On a packet of land given to Elizabeth by her father. Elizabeth bore Hugh a son, Hugh Tingle Jr. on the 17th of September 1684.

Hugh Tingle Jr. was married around 1706 to Comfort Fassett. And although no dates are available as to when Hugh and his bride decided to strike south and seek their fortunes. They left an area still under the rule of British Royalty, these areas known as 100's because a king or such similar ruler kept each portion of land. Each parcel held 100 men and their families loyal to that ruler and willing to fight in the name of their LandLord. The area that is now known as Somerset was called the Pocomoke, Mattapany, and Bogerternorten 100's, bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and to the south by the Chesapeake Bay, with the Baltimore, and Nanticoke 100's to the north. Hugh and Comfort traveled south to North Carolina to what is now known as Craven County, where they settled and started their family farm. Here Comfort bore Hugh a son Solomon Tingle in 1730.

All we know at this point is that Solomon married a woman named Mary around 1772-1774, Mary bore Solomon three children, John, Mary, and Solomon Jr. John grew up on the family farm and eventually married Sally Sarah Purifoy, who was born in 1774. They married on May 13th, 1795 in Craven, Co., N.C. They started their new lives together building their farm and then their family.

Their prodigy included 4 boys and 4 girls,

Daniel Willie was the first, born on March 29th, 1796 in Craven, Co. Solomon died the year before his grandson was born. Daniel probably grew up working his father's farm until the family decided to migrate further south to Georgia around Monroe Co. or Jefferson Co. where Daniel wed Parthenia Hatcher on February 6th, 1823. Georgia censuses show that Daniel settled his farm near his father's farm in Monroe, Co. by 1830.

By the time the Civil war had begun, the Tingle family was well established in the Blount Community and active in the Paran Primitive Baptist Church. Daniel's sons and daughters married into the neighboring families and were established on their own farms in the area. Monroe County was not an area of large plantations but rather substantial farms cleared from the gentle pine covered hills. Daniel and Parthenia's family was large consistent with the times, having 6 sons and 5 daughters. Solomon Willie was the last born son, born on October 20th, 1846.

At the young age of 16 Solomon Willie ventured off and joined the Confederacy along with his brothers McCarroll, Archibald, and James. The four brothers were all assigned to Co. H, 32nd Regiment of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee under the command of Colonel George P. Harrison Jr. The brothers fought throughout South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. In Florida they were caught up in the Battle of Ocean Pond also known as the Battle of Olustee, on their way to Jacksonville, Florida. James and McCarroll were both wounded in the left leg on February 20th, 1864. James was so severely wounded he was left permanently disabled and sent home. McCarroll who left a wife two small daughters and a newborn son was travelling back to his unit when he was captured near Macon, Ga. On April 20th or 21st and placed in a POW camp. He was released and returned home to his farm to care for his wife and children. McCarroll is buried near his mother and father in Paran Cemetery in Blount, Monroe Co. Ga. Solomon Willie stayed with his company along with brother Archibald throughout the following campaigns until April 26th, 1865 when he and the Army of Tennessee now commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman at Bennett's Place in Durham, North Carolina.

Returning home Solomon Willie married Georgia Ann McCallum in 1868. Solomon Willie and Georgia settled in Henry Co. Ga. Probably in Locust Grove, and raised ten children. Solomon Willie is buried in Beersheba Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Locust Grove, Ga.* Daniel and Georgia's large family consisted of 3 girls and 7 boys. The third oldest child was Owen L. Tingle who was born Jan 6th 1874 in Butts, Henry Co. Ga. Owen married Lois Crumbley and their son is our one and only "Pop" (William Owen Tingle). Further research and help from family members will allow me to add to Pop's siblings and continue to add to the story. If you have any information you think I am missing please notify me and I will make all the necessary changes. I hope you have enjoyed this little story, I am not a professional writer but I thought that in this form you might enjoy the information a little more. * Records of Daisie F. Duncan of Lawrenceville, Ga.

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Last updated 3/31/2002.