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Irish surname
Hacaed, Haicéid (Woulfe's Irish form of the Norman name); also Mac Haicéid · 'son of Haket' (a Norman personal name)
Hackett is a Norman name. Woulfe (1923) prints: 'Hackede, Haket, Hackett; son of Haket (a Norman personal name). The Hacketts came into Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion and settled in Dublin, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, etc. The name occurs frequently in early Anglo-Irish records.' He also gives Mac Haicéid, 'son of Hacket' — 'the name of a tiny family who were formerly seated at Island M'Hackett, Co. Galway.' Separately, Woulfe prints '(Hackett)' in brackets under two Gaelic names, Mac Eachadha / Mac Eachaidh and Mag Eachaidh (which he calls 'an Ulster variant of Mag Eochadha'), whose usual anglicised forms are MacCaughey, MacGahey and the like.
Woulfe, in his own words: 'Hackede, Haket, Hackett; son of Haket (a Norman personal name). The Hacketts came into Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion and settled in Dublin, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, etc.' He gives Mac Haicéid as 'the name of a tiny family who were formerly seated at Island M'Hackett, Co. Galway.'[1][2]
Haket · Hackede · M'Hacket[1]
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Not originally. Per Woulfe it is Norman: 'son of Haket (a Norman personal name)'; the Hacketts came to Ireland at the Anglo-Norman invasion and settled in Dublin, Wicklow, Kilkenny and Tipperary.[1]
'Son of Haket', a Norman personal name, per Woulfe.[1]
Woulfe prints '(Hackett)' in brackets under two Gaelic names, Mac Eachadha / Mac Eachaidh (a 'variant of Mac Eochadha, Mac Eochaidh, Mag Eochaidh') and Mag Eachaidh ('an Ulster variant of Mag Eochadha'). Their anglicised forms are MacCaughey, MacGahey and the like, and Woulfe adds that Mac Eachadha is 'sometimes, by "translation," Steed, Steedman'. These are Gaelic names, distinct from the Norman Hacketts.[3][4]
Matheson's 1890 births index gives 34 entries including spelling varieties (30 spelled Hackett), principally in Tyrone, Dublin and Kilkenny.[5]
Note: Matheson's 1890 figures for a surname include its spelling varieties (Matheson, Table Explanation).
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