Edward Hasell

taken from Ancestry tree

Jane's grandfather was Sir Edward Hasell.  His parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his mother's sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Rainbow (nee Smith), wife of the Bishop of Carlisle.  Sir Edward Hasell worked for Lady Anne Clifford as chief secretary until her death in 1676.  This association provided the funds with which to buy the house and estate of Dalemain from the trustees of Sir William Layton.  Sir Edward died in 1707, and when his eldest son William died in Oxford in 1716, James' father Edward, the second son, inherited the estates at the age of eighteen.

Sources

1. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 1 (Google eBook).  H. Colburn, 1875.  Page 595.  Hasell of Dalemain.