Sackett (surname)

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Sackett (occasionally Sacket) is an English surname originating in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, probably at Sackett's Hill in the parish of St Peter in Thanet (now Broadstairs and St Peter's). The earliest record of the name dates from 1317 when William Saket of Southborough, St Peter in Thanet, was in a legal dispute with the Abbot of St Augustine, Canterbury. [1]

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The Sacketts were among the first colonists of America, with Simon Sackett arriving at the Massachusetts Bay Colony a few months after the Winthrop Fleet of 1630, and John Sackett, possibly a nephew of Simon, arriving at the New Haven Colony sometime before 1641. [2] [3]

Variants

Early variants were Sakt and Saket. Later records are of Sacket, Sackett, Sackette, Sackitt. The only extant forms are Sacket, Sackett and Sackitt, with Sackett predominating.

Origin of the surname

Several derivations of the surname Sackett have been proposed:

The word "sacket" has two dictionary definitions: a bag; and a term of reproach or abuse. [7]

None of these possible derivations of the surname is likely. Any would have resulted in the name arising independently in different places; but such is the concentration of the name in early records in a small area of Thanet that it may be supposed that the name originated in a single family. Certainly, the surname, first found in 1317, is seen to predate the earliest recorded use (c1440) of the word "sakett" meaning a bag.

Notable Sacketts

Distribution of the name

Although the name originated in England, there are now many more Sacketts in the United States. The great majority of these are in the line of Simon Sackett the colonist (1595–1635). Sacketts in the UK number just under 500, giving a frequency of 9 per million, and a surname ranking of 11,423. [8] There are about 5,500 Sacketts in the USA, a frequency of 20 per million, and a ranking of 5,759. [9] Australia has about 70 residents with the name, which is ranked 19,192, with a frequency of 4 per million. [10]

Sackett places

Fictional characters

The author Louis L'Amour chose the name Sackett for the central characters in a series of novels after finding Sackett's Well in California. [12]

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References

  1. David Oliver, Late Mediæval Thanet and the Cinque Ports (Broadstairs, Kent: The Author, 1997).
  2. 1 2 Charles H. Weygant, The Sacketts of America: Their Ancestors and Descendants, 1630–1907 (Newburgh, NY: The Author, 1907).
  3. Robert Anderson, The Great Migration Begins – Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
  4. Oxford Dictionary of Family Names, 2016
  5. Henry Harrison, Surnames of the United Kingdom: a Concise Etymological Dictionary (London: Eaton Press, 1912).
  6. Alfred Barrett Sackett, MC, MA, (1895–1977), private papers.
  7. Oxford English Dictionary.
  8. Surnames of England and Wales – the ONS list.
  9. US Census Bureau Archived 1997-06-17 at the Wayback Machine .
  10. British Surnames and Surname Profiles.
  11. John Lewis, The History and Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Civil of the Isle of Tenet in Kent (London: 1723).
  12. Letter, 28 June 1981, Louis L'Amour to Ruth Elzey Rawlings, "I got the name from a desert well somewhat west of Yuma, Arizona, although it is in California. The "well" (you have to dig several barrels of sand before reaching water) was discovered by a Lt. Delos B. Sackett who was with a government expedition and the water was desperately needed for their mules."