Baskett

Baskett One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Baskett **** available for adoption ****

Variants: Basket

Category: 3 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way on a global basis.

Website: basketts.tribalpages.com/

Guild hosted website: baskett.one-name.net

Contact: Mrs Ann Spiro

About the study

The Baskett One-Name Study commenced in March 2009. For more than twenty years I have been researching the surname BASKETT.

I was named Ellen Ann after my great-grandmother Ellen Ann Baskett.

I have researched the Baskett surname in:

Mile Town, Sheerness, Kent, Isle of Wight where my GG grandparents William Baskett and Ellen (nee Coppinger) were born and married.
Having traced back to John Baskett born about 1768, I have not been able to find the origins of the family or their name before their time on the Isle of Wight - or the reason for settling there.

William and Ellen arrived in Sheerness, Kent in or before 1855. They had two sons and two daughters.

William Thomas Baskett 1853-1885 (unmarried, died 1885).
Ellen Ann Baskett 1855-1932. Married my great grandfather Thomas Francis Richards Briggs.
Alfred Seymour Baskett 1858-1923. Married Martha Coulter.
Emily Mary Baskett 1860-1934. Married Army man George Nutty.

I have had contact with others researching a BASKETT branch in Australia; the USA; and the UK. Ready to share information for ANY Baskett branches.

Variant names

Modern variations: Baskett, Basket, Baskot.
Mistranscription: Bassett, Boskett.
Old variations: Basquet, Bascote, Basuca,

Name origin

I am still searching for the true origins of my Baskett branch and hoping to find where they lived before settling on the Isle of Wight?
Contact has been made with Baskett cousins living in the UK and with another who are living in Texas USA.

Historical occurrences of the name

The name BASQUET does occur in the register of the Threadneedle Street Church, which was the main Huguenot church in London, founded in 1550. Many Basketts, who lived in the London area, were of Huguenot origin, but not all Basketts in England were descended from the Huguenots.
One branch of Basketts' lived for over 200 years in Somerset, where they grew willow to make 'Basketts'.

Name frequency

At the time of commencing this ONS, in 2009:
Frequency: (673) (number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: 1. from Middle English basket âbasketâ, hence a metonymic occupational name for a basket maker, or perhaps, as Reaney suggests, for someone who carried baskets of stone to a lime kiln. In some cases, it appears to have been a topographic name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a basket (who was therefore probably a basket maker). 2. habitational name for someone from Bascote in Warwickshire, probably so named with an unattested Old English personal name Basuca + cot âcottageâ.

Distribution of the name

Maps showing the distribution of the surname BASKETT are available, based on the 1881 UK census findings. Latest results (19Nov09 ) for Baskett, including:
â¢ 681 results in Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
â¢ 637 results in 1930 US Census
â¢ 420 results in England & Wales 1891 Census
â¢ 393 results in Moberly Weekly Monitor (Moberly, Missouri)
â¢ 342 results in England & Wales 1881 Census.

Data

Certificates of births, marriages, deaths, burials; some shipping/travel manifests and a few photographs are in my possession.

Indexing is an ongoing task and so far I have indexed:

Marriages: approximately 600 marriages, of which several hundred can be viewed on the:
- Guild Marriages Index (GMI),
- World Wide Marriages &
- Marriages of the World. Index.
Births, marriages, deaths
Wills; Probates; Immigration to Australia
Convicts transported to Australia

I welcome any input from others researching this surname

DNA

BASKETT DNA Project: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Baskett/

Contact Details

Mrs Ann Spiro

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Baskett in the Guild Indexes

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Global Marriages (public) 1079
Global Marriages (members)* 1082
Probate Index* 35
Datastores 3

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