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From: "Elizabeth W. Knowlton" <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] Irish Hacketts for St. Patricks Day
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:19:06 -0500


Eliza Hackett, Protestant, b. ca 1818 in Co. Offaly, Ireland,
married John Samuel Clarke (1815-1895) of Portumna, Co. Galway, Ireland, an
agent for the Grand Canal Company, by 1838. She was the daughter of Thomas
Hackett of Castlearmstrong near Ballycumber and Jane Glanville (the latter
daughter of William and Elizabeth Lowe Glanville of Co. Westmeath).
Eliza's daughter, Josephine Maude Clarke, married William M. Foley,
a Church of Ireland (Protestant) minister and a widow, in 1884. His first
wife was her cousin, Elizabeth (Bess) Pauline Hackett (1853-1882), also of
Co. Offaly, Eliza's niece, the daughter of her brother Thomas. Bess had
brothers Thomas Aylmer Pearson Hackett (b. 1854, left issue) and Samuel
John Hackett (d. 1915, unm.), both C of I ministers also. Rev. Foley
remained close to the Hacketts after Bess died; and Samuel John Hackett
got his church in Askeaton, Co. Limerick, after the Foleys moved on to Co.
Mayo in 1896.
Bess's other brothers were not as religious. One story is that
Castlearmstrong was occupied by one brother and was thrown out when the
other returned from serving in the army. Be that as it may, the remaining
brothers were Robert Isaac Dalby Hackett (b. 1857), William Frederick
Hackett (b. 1858), and Edward Augustus Hackett (b. 1859). There was
another sister, Jane Harriet (1861-1881) who married Dr. W.A. Booker and
died in South Africa.
Castlearmstrong, at Castletown Park, seems to have been owned by a
Thomas Aylmer Pearson at the time of Griffiths Valuations but may have
belonged to the Hacketts by the time Edward Hackett was living in it before
WWI. He had several sons and daughters, all of whom died before him,
either in WWI, from disease, or in childbirth. The Irish Land Commission
took the house from Edward and demolished it to pave the road between
Ballycumber and Ferbane in the 1930's.
Would like to share information on the Hacketts in Co. Offaly.
I have met one good researcher of the central Ireland Hackett
family (and have connected it with a Landed Gentry line), queried my family
members, collected vital records, ordered the 1901 and 1911 censuses, and
gotten copies of the ministers' career histories. Since the 1922 fire
destroyed church records, I am depending on others to have collected some
19th c. family history of the Hacketts and Glanvilles. All tips
appreciated.
Elizabeth W. Knowlton

Elizabeth

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