SPECIAL NOTE:  On some of the names you may see numbers that do not pertain to 
JR, SR, I, II etc., because of the way the program is set up you need to 
distinguish when there is more than one of the same name so that is why you may 
see ex:  Thomas 1, 2, etc.  Or True 1, 2,.  Usually if there is a father/son 
relationship with same name it is distinguished by Sr. Jr.  Also inorder to 
look at a family tree completed this site is set up to protect people who are 
still living so if they are marked alive you will not be able to view the 
family tree, so names you may see that are relatively young even though they 
may be indicated as being deceased they may not be.


NEWEST Additions to the web site - There is a copy of the book Nailors in the 
picture pages of this web site.  If you would like me to send you a copy of the 
book please feel free to contact me and I will send you a zip of the books.

Twigger Family Tree  (Emma Twigger Hackett daughter of William and Hannah 
Turner Twigger, married Rague Hackett) (complete)

Fitch Family Tree  (Branch of Rague Hackett and Emma Twigger 
Hackett, their daughter Hannah Hackett married Charles Delmar Fitch) (complete)

Judd Family Tree (Complete) Branch of Mary Ann Hackett (daughter of Rague and 
Emma Twigger Hackett's daughter) and Jacob Bird Judd.

Immigration of Edward Twigger and his wife Sarah aboard the British Princess in 
1883 through the Port of Philadelphia.

Picture of Ceceila Mary Smith Hackett (wife of Joseph William Hackett)
Birth Certificate of Joseph William Hackett son of Rague and Emma Twigger 
Hackett.Edward and Lulu Bush, gravestone of Rague and Emma Twigger Hackett, and 
Joseph and Ceceila Mary Smith Hackett, Picture of Emma Twigger Hackett as a 
infant with a Aunt Sousa taken in England.

Diary pages from Sarah Hackett Cravens diary at the time of death of 
Anna/Hannah Fitch(infant of Hannah and Charles Delmar Fitch)

Map of the Hackett Land in Roaring Branch, Tioga Cty, PA

Marriage Liscense of Rague and Emma Twigger Hackett.  Death Certiciate of Leah 
Hackett wife of Joseph Ralph Hackett. Marriage liscense of Hugh C. and Ceceila 
May Hackett Kent.

Graduation Souvenirs for Ray, Joseph and Mary Hackett from English Hill one 
room school.  Children of Joseph William and Ceceila Mary Smith Hackett.
Armenia School House 1915, pictures Florence, Ceceila and Lenna Hackett 
daughters of Joseph William and Ceceila Mary Smith Hackett.


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I am interested in finding out additonal information about the Hacketts of 
England, and their career as Nailors.  

The Hackett family as well as the Twigger family came from the West Midland 
area of England.  The Hacketts did not have a very easy life in England who 
depended on nailing as an occupation.   

After the Industrial Revolution and the development of machines that could make 
nails faster and cheaper resulted in hurting the people who made nail making as 
their way of life.  After the Industrial Revolution the Hackett's started to 
work as Coal Miners in England.  The area of where the Hacketts lived was known 
as the Black Country due to the amount of smog that filled the area after the 
development of the factories. 

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Rague Hackett son of Joseph Hackett married Emma Twigger Hackett in the West 
Midlands of England in 1852, and this is how the "Hackett Twigger" Branches 
began and became a "tree". 

Rague Hackett came to the USA in 1855 on the Henry Clay through the 
Port of NY.  He made his way down to Schuylkill Cty area, (St. Claire, 
Waidesville, Palo Alto) and he did coalmining there.  

William Twigger who is Emma Twiggers brother (Joseph Hackett's wife), came to 
the USA 2 times. Emma's brother (William) made the trip back to England in 1856 
to accompany her and the children to the USA.  This was his second trip to the 
USA 

The first time he came to the USA was in 1851 was with his brother in law 
Samuel Westwood who was married to William's sister Elizabeth.  William went on 
to settle in Virginia as a Inn Keeper and marrying Mary Armstrong before he 
returned to England to accompany Emma. Samuel went on down to St. Claires, 
Schuylkill Cty, PA where he probably joined Rague as he was also a coal miner.

In 1852, after the death of her husband William Twigger in 1850 in the West 
Midlands, of England, Hannah Turner Twigger (William, Emma and Elizabeth 
Twigger's mother) came to the USA with her daughter Elizabeth Twigger Westwood 
and her three children George, Emma and Sarah.  They also entered through the 
Port of NY aboard the William Stetson.  

It is believed that Hannah may have died shortly after her arrival in the USA 
as I have been unable to locate her in any records.  Elizabeth and the children 
joined Samuel in St. Claires where they stayed until Samuel's death in the coal 
mine.  After that point I have been unable to locate them.  

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Most of Rague's and Emma's children were born in the Schuylkill area.  They 
lived in the Palo Alto area of Pennsylvania until they purchased 120 acres of 
land in Roaring Branch in 1869 on English Hill, in Tioga Cty, PA,.  

There Rague and eventually his sons worked in the Tanneries of the area and 
eventually Joseph his oldest son had the Sugar Creek Mill in Troy, Bradford 
Cty, PA.

From their the travels of the families were in Schuylkill Cty, Tioga Cty, 
Bradford Cty, PA and  Chemung Cty, NY  and Westmoreland, PA.  The Twiggers 
settled in the Westmoreland Cty where William continued to be an Inn Keeper.

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This is just the beginning of the journey to learn more you can look at my web 
page at http://www.hackettclan.accessgenealogy.com   Hope to see you there!