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. I have finally published my Hackett family research onto my web site. I will be adding more so please check back.
~*~The Courthouse Burned~*~ 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 showed the names to my elderly great grandmother Hackett, she said that the middle name of her husband was wrong, that his name was "John Wickleff Hackett". She did not correct the name of Johnny's father that I had gotten from Grandma, "John Pratt Hackett". Then I started delving into the census records of Buckingham County, Virginia and 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 never found any definitive proof of the parents of Thomas Hackett. From the early census records I had presumed that Thomas Hackett, Junior, my ancestor, was the nephew of Thomas Hackett, Senior. It appeared that Thomas Hackett, Junior was named as head of a household that must have included his mother and siblings. Then I came upon a family history published in 1926 of the Garrett family of Buckingham County. They married into the Hackett family and this connected the family with Albemarle County. I studied the early Hacketts of Buckingham, Albemarle and Caroline Counties and came up with a genealogy tracing back to two Thomas Hacketts in 1724, involved in the estate of Patrick Kelley. Therefore, much of this Hackett lineage is based on preponderance of evidence, rather than hard facts. I feel confident that it is accurate and have now published it. New discoveries of records may prove or disprove it, but for now, here it is. ~~Edna Barney
NEW leads that I want to pursue are the connection of the early Hacketts of Buckingham County to North Carolina, particularly Halifax and Rutherford Counties. I am wondering if some of them settled there and then returned to Virginia. They seem connected to the Mickleborough/Mickleberry, George, and Williamson families.
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, ISBN 0 7171 1233 0
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