Hackett family
The Hackett family where from fivemilestown , Tyrone Fermanagh. Thomas Hackett was born 1858-1928 and his wife Ellen Hackett (nee McCaffrey or Droogan ) 1859 -1904 and their five children moved from Fivemilestown to Paisley Scotland . My father John smyth (smith) born 1913 in Essexford Killanny county Louth was in 1921 living with the above family in Paisley . I have no idea why , what the connection was .They could of been family, was it down to poverty he started a new life in Scotland . Someone has suggested it was common for parents to sell their children , either at local labour fayres or in to local families. Did they just not send him back home. On my dad's side common irish family names include Smyth , Smith , Corrigan , McKenna , McMahon , Atkinson, Boyle , Breen , Brennan.
