MY grandmother was a HACKETT from Buckingham County, Virginia. Her family had been there since before the American Revolution. Tracing the genealogy of this family has been a challenge because of the loss of all the county records when the courthouse burned in 1869: Burning of the Buckingham C.H. and Clerks Office: "The work of an Incendiary. The large & excellent courthouse building of Buckingham County,in the village of Maysville was last night burnt to the ground, the fire being discovered about one o'clock. NOT ONE PAPER WAS LEFT." ~~The Richmond Whig 1869
WHEN I first began searching my family's history, my grandmother, Larkie Bell (HACKETT) VIA, gave me the names of her father and grandfather HACKETT. When I started delving into the census records of Buckingham County, Virginia I was able to get the names of John P. HACKETT's parents; Thomas and Elizabeth HACKETT. As the years rolled on, I searched off and on what remains of the records of Buckingham County, Virginia. I came upon a family history published in 1926, of the GARRETT family of Buckingham County. The GARRETTS had married into the HACKETT family and this connected the family with early Albemarle County. I studied the early HACKETTs of Buckingham, Albemarle and Caroline Counties and trace them back to two Thomas HACKETTs in 1724. They possibly descend from Captain Thomas HACKETT who lived at Corotomen, Lancaster County, Virginia, in the early 1600s. He left a will dated 1655/1656 in Lancaster County, Virginia. Before 1663, the Parish of Christ Church, Middlesex County was the Parish of Lancaster. There are also records of a Captain HACKETT in Barbados. ~~Edna Barney
THE surname Hackett derives from the personal name Haket and was brought to Ireland at the end of the 12th Century by Anglo-Norman settlers who established themselves in Leinster, where their name is commemorated in the town lands of Hacketstown and Ballyhacket Lower and Upper in Rathvilly barony, County Carlow, Hackettsland in Rathdown barony, County Dublin, and Hacketstown in Balrothery East barony, County Dublin. There are also places named Ballyhacket in Ulster, in County Derry and County Antrim, and places named Hacketstown in Munster, in County Cork and County Waterford. Castle Hacket in Clare barony, County Galway, was once a stronghold of a branch of the family which established itself in Connacht. The name is now rare in Connacht but survives in the other three provinces with the heaviest distribution in Leinster, particularly in Dublin and in County Kilkenny. ~~from Irish Family Names by Brian DeBreffny
Neddy's Nook on the Net ~ Hacketts of Buckingham County was created and published by Edna Barney on 12 January 2004. I have removed the HACKETT genealogy that was published here as I have found much additional information to update it. I plan to publish the new information in the future. The graphic designs are from Country Patch Collections and Ritva's Gallery. ©Copyright 2004-2011 by Edna Barney ~ All Rights Reserved