Baskett
One-Name Study

Topics

• About the Baskett One-Name Study
• Variants
• Origin of the surname
• Historical occurrences
• Frequency of the name
• Distribution of the name
• Data
• DNA project
• Links
• Contact Details

About the Baskett One-Name Study

The Baskett One-Name Study was commenced in March 2009. Although I have been researching different branches of my ancestry for some years, I have always felt drawn more to the Baskett branch - maybe this is because for many generations my given name Ellen Ann has been passed down through this branch and I feel a tie with those women. My grandfather Charles.E.F.Briggs was the only member of his family to came to Australia and he never spoke much about those he left behind. His mother was Ellen Ann Baskett. The Basketts led me first to Hampshire then Kent and later to the Isle of Wight where my GG grandparents William Baskett and Ellen (nee Coppinger) were born. Although I have 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.

Variants

Modern variations: Basket, Baskett

Old variations: Basquet, Bascote, Basuca,

Origin of the surname

I am still searching for the true 'origins' of My Baskett surname. From where did the surname Baskett and its, owners originate. For example, where were they before settling on the Isle of Wight?

Historical occurrences

Great-great grandparents William BASKETT and Ellen nee COPPINGER. William was a Master Shipwright; the family moved from Isle of Wight to Sheerness, Kent in or before 1850. Their first daughter, Ellen Ann Baskett married my great grandfather Thomas Francis Richards Briggs.

Frequency of the name

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 ‘basket’, 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 ‘cottage’.

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:

• 681 results in Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

• 637 results in 1930 US Census

• 420 results in England & Wales 1891 Census

• 393 results in Moberly Weekly Monitor (Moberly, Missouri)

• 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. I have indexed approx 600 BASKETT marriages (approx 385 are on the Guild Marriages Index (GMI) which will hopefully help other Guild members match up their mystery BASKETT with a spouse name.

Indexing Commenced: Baskett marriages; Wills; Probates.

DNA project

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

Links

• BASKETT Case: www.basketts.tribalpages.com

• BASKETT Surname email list: BASKETT-request@rootsweb.com

• BASKETT Message Board: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.baskett/mb.ashx

• BRIGGS and BASKETT Connections: http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/briggs

• Blacksmiths & Related Occupations: http://tinyurl.com/2948r4v

• Guild Regional Rep email: rep-australia-north-west@one-name.org

• One Place Study: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bluetownkent

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mrs Ann Spiro
PO Box 6294,
East Perth,
Western Australia
6892
Australia
E-mail:

This page last updated 1 February 2012.

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