The Sackett Family Association

December 2015

New members 516 Carol Davis Mckinney, 517 Robin Crockett

November 2015

New members 511 Susan Ellis Marshall, 512 Claudine Boerner, 513 Lois Landvoigt, 514 Vivienne Chan, 515 Larry Dale Weller
Added Notable Bishop Benjamin Moore (1748–1816), Episcopal bishop of New York and president of Columbia College.
Added Notable Professor Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863) was credited with writing the poem, "A visit from St. Nicholas," beginning: "Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."
Updated Sackett Family Association reunions
Added The 2015 Sackett reunion picture gallery
Updated Transactions, Committee records, 2015 with 2015 Reunion minutes and appointment of Patti Hobbs as Sackett DNA Project Administrator
Updated Association page
Featured Sackett this month

Sackett, Benjamin Edwin (1911–2002), FBI special agent who cracked a German spy ring in New York in the lead-up to the Second World War. (Further data is being researched and will be added later).

October 2015

New members 504 Kaelyn Sackett, 505 Jeff Goodfox, 506 Rachel Sackett, 507 Natalie Sackett, 508 Elizabeth Anne Ross, 509 Anne Carter (Sackett) Ross, 510 Penny Harris Jennings
Revised England, school admissions registers & log books (29) (added 12 records from FindMyPast)
Added England, Wills, Administrations, & Inventories, 1900s (144)
Featured Sackett this month

Sackett, Herbert Leyland (1893–1924), brilliant young surgeon who died from the same infection and on the same day as his father Reverend Walter Sackett who Herbert was treating.

September 2015

New members 501 June Mckenny, 502 Mary Volberding, 503 Michael Maggs
Revised 190 Peter D M Sackett, 266 Jo Gillausseyn, 267 Peter Sackett, 283 Carolyn Dark, 370 Caroline Lloyd, 385 David Staynor, 429 Denise Sackett, 438 Kimberley Stewart, 441 Kay Stewart
Revised India births & baptisms (48)
Revised India marriages (27)
Revised India deaths & burials (28)
Featured Sackett this month

Sackett, Lyman Belcher (c1840–bef1894), American Civil War soldier who deserted to India, via Australia, was the progenitor of several generations of Sacketts born in India.

The parentage of Lyman Beecher Sackett, found in Indian records, was until now a mystery. His marriage record has been found, and this identifies his father, also Lyman Sackett. The connection is confirmed in court records of the will of the senior Lyman, who died in New York at the age of 22. The senior Lyman's mother was Clarissa Belcher, and it seems that "Belcher" became "Beecher" in Indian records.

This discovery means that the Sackett line of a number of Association members (listed above), who are descended from Lyman Beecher Sackett, is extended back a further ten generations.

August 2015

New members 496 George B Sackett, 497 Warren Ayer, 498 Marcia V Daly, 499 Clint Palermo, 500 Tim Robinson
Obituary 296 Elizabeth Anne "Beth" (Sackett) Lee died 23 July 2015
Added Kansas marriages (18)
Added New Jersey marriages (25)
Added Tennessee marriages (11)

July 2015

New members 493 Sandra Bell, 494 Curt Klebaum, 495 Denise LaPare
Added Byra Sackett's DNA results (see also Thanet line charts)
Featured Sackett this month

Sackett, Samuel Arthur (1841–1932), a Mormon, fathered 24 children by polygamous marriages to sisters Mary and Laura Peterson. He left a fascinating account of life in the Old West.

June 2015

New members 491 Philip Jackson, 492 Norman Todd
Added Featured Sacketts page
Featured Sacketts this month

Sackett, Henry (1851–1928) emigrated in 1870 from Essex, England, to Texas, USA, and became a member of the Texas House of Representatives.

Sackett, Ivy Florence Annie (1907–2015) emigrated as an orphan at age 14 from England to Canada. She died aged 108 and is the oldest recorded Sackett.

Sackett, James M "Jim" (1928–2015) was a veteran of the Korean War and a founding member of the Sackett Family Association.