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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a pet form of the Norman personal name Aschetil (see Haskell).
  • Stephen Hasket, a soap boiler and merchant of Salem, MA, was a native of Henstridge, Somerset, England. He came to Salem from Exeter, Devon, about 1666. His son Elias, born at Salem, went on to become governor of New Providence, Bahamas, before the people there revolted and sent him back to NY.

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