Chris, Peter, and fellow cyber cousins: Although someone else may beat me to this, I thought I would just post the information that the name Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) is famous in the United States as the name of the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, Beecher was ordained as a Presbyterian clergyman and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he served as the first president of Lane Theological Seminary. His daughter's antislavery views were shaped by the debates over slavery that occurred on the campus of the seminary during his tenure in the 1830s. You can see more about his background at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Beecher On Sunday, March 01, 2009, at 03:09PM, "Chris Sackett" <[email protected]> wrote: >Peter Sackett wrote: > >> Chris Thanks for this lead. I see that this online site has only >> about 10% of the Indian records available at the British Library, >> although more info. will be added soon, so maybe I will need to >> make a visit there to get much further. Even so, I've discovered >> my grandfather, who is the Bertram Edward Sackett you refer to >> below, and 4 of his children (my uncles and aunts) - Dennis, >> Dulcie, Ivan, and Mavis. > >Peter, > >Thanks for confirming the identity of your grandfather, Bertram >Edward Sackett. Based on the birth dates of his children, he would >have been born in about 1885. I do not find a birth record for him in >the GRO records in England, so it appears likely that he was also >born in India. I was interested to note that the "Aldridge" name in >Dennis George Aldridge Sackett, b. in about 1910, also appears in the >marriage of Lyman Beecher Sackett and Caroline Lydia Aldridge >sometime between 1866 and 1870. Might be a clue? I have no records >anywhere in the UK of the name "Lyman" - just does not sound like a >British name. There were however quite a few Lymans in the US. Do you >think it at all possible that your Indian Sacketts got there by way of the US? > >Although I have not yet posted a sketch of Rev Frank Colyer Sackett >he is well known to us and is close to my Sackett line. His father >Jeremiah is at http://www.sackettfamily.info/p13582.htm and there is >also a picture of Frank Colyer on that page. As far as I know, you >would not be connected to Frank Colyer's line. > >Regards, >Chris > >SACKETT is a Discussion list for Sackett/Sacket Family Genealogy. Associated URL's for this surname: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sidersn/sackett/ and http://www.sackettfamily.info/ >If you need any help, email the List Admin at: [email protected] >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >