Most children
The child-producing record amongst women known to historical demographers is at present shared between the wife of a solicitor of Geneva who had 21 births in the late 17th century and a girl from Kent, Ann Sackett, who was born in 1779 at Ash in that county. At 18 she married John Cook, a labourer there. By 1823 they had had 21 children at 20 births, and Ann was still alive in 1851.
— from The World We Have Lost, pp 116-7. Ann was a daughter of John and Catherine (Andrews) Sackett.
Brothers' greatest combined ages
In June 1813, seven sons of Henry and Elizabeth (Clifford) Sackett attended service at the church of St Peter in Thanet, Kent, afterwards dining together at Jeremiah Sackett's Northwood farm. The combined ages of the seven brothers totalled 503 years. The brothers were Thomas (1734-1817), Henry (1738-1818), William (1741-1819), John (1743-1827), Richard (1746-1831), Jeremiah (1749-1838) and Edward (1753-1844).
Least travelled
Mr John James Sackett (94), the oldest Methodist lay preacher in Kent, lived all his life at Myrtle Cottage, Thanet, the house in which he was born, and in which he has died. He had slept under another roof only twice in all that time.
— noted by Jabez Sackett (1840-1925) in an addendum to an obituary of his father Benjamin Sackett, 13 August 1885.
Earliest known
The earliest known Sackett is William Saket of Southborough, St Peter in Thanet, who in 1317 was in a legal dispute with the Abbot of St Augustine.
Laziest (or most honest!)
When registering for the US Civil War draft in 1863, Chester Sackett was described as (or maybe he described himself as) a loafer.
Least modest
Marriage—
Yesterday, at St. Peter's Margate, Mr. Tomlin, jun. of North Down, to Miss Cramp, with a fortune of, at least, £60,000. Taking their ages together, two-and thirty will be the amount.
— Morning Star ( London), Friday, July 31, 1789. This fortunate couple were Sarah Cramp, born 1771, daughter of Peter Cramp & Susanna Sackett, and Robert Tomlin, born 1770, son of John Tomlin & Sarah. Although both young at marriage, their combined ages would have been 36 rather than 32. The £60,000 would be quite a few millions in today's money.
Most sisters marrying same man
Three daughters of Daniel Sackett (b. 1823) married lumber merchant George Washington Jones: Ella in 1876, Maud in 1892, and Cora sometime after 1923.
World's biggest collection of Sacketts
Thurmon King's database has records of more than 36,000 people, nearly 10,000 of them with the surname Sackett.
Most preaching
The Revd. John Sackette was Vicar of Folkestone, Kent, for 54 years from 1699 to his death in 1753. He preached the sermon at the Archbishop's Visitation in May 1702. He was also Rector of Hawkinge, Kent, for 40 years from 1713, and Vicar of West Hythe for 21 years from 1732.
— Cambridge Alumni records.
Most married
Letus Sackett (1793–1854) of Monkton, Vermont, and Palmervilla, Indiana, married five times: to Hannah Dinsman in 1814, Leah Orr in 1821, Hannah Woolley in 1827, Deborah Jack in 1836, and Ruth (Parish) Neal in 1844.
Married four times were:
Robert Sackett (1628–1709) of Margate, Kent, to Ann Keame in 1664, Elizabeth Swinford in 1680, Anne Cocke in 1694, and Mary Kerby in 1697.
Solomon Sackett (1748–1823) of New Haven and Norfolk, Connecticut, to Mary ___ before 1770, Ruth Hull in 1787, Ruth Turner in 1790, and Miriam Davis in 1806.
Adnah Sackett (1796–1860) of Providence, Rhode Island, to Ann Short in 1818, Eliza Adams in 1824, Miranda Keach in 1848, and Nancy Parks in 1856.
Loren Sackett (1801–1893) of Hartford, Connecticut, Westfield, Massachusetts, and Amboy, Illinois, to Frances Smith in 1832, Harriet Roberts in 1850, Sarah Downey in 1864, and Almira Barnes before 1880.
Frank Sackett (1861–1933) of Colebrook and Winsted, Connecticut, to Alice Greene in 1883, Nettie Dean in 1887, Sarah Chase in 1900, and Belle Hart in about 1910.
Longest married
Hiram Sackett (b. 1812) and Millicent Smith (b. 1816) were recorded in the 1900 US census as married for 63 years. They were married on 6 December 1834 and therefore had actually been married for 65 years 6 months at the census date. Their death records have not been found to enable a full count.
Biggest gap in ages
Fifty-eight-year-old George Holt Sackett, a pork butcher of Ramsgate, Kent, was a late entrant to the joys of matrimony. His bride, Maude Kelk, a lass of 23, was 35 years younger.
Oldest
Robert M Keir, a descendant of Simon Sackett the colonist, was born on 6 June 1905. He died on 9 July 2011 at the age of 106 years one month three days.
Sackett centenarians
Eva Ophelia (Sackett) Hughes, born 30 October 1904, died on 21 January 2006 aged 101 years 2 months 22 days.
William Starret Sackett, born 17 January 1851, died on 24 April 1951 aged 100 years 3 months 7 days.
