"A History of Cambridgeshire"

Thomas Haselden, A Yorkshireman, controller of John of Gaunt's household 1372-82, arrived in Cambridgeshire as Gaunt's steward at Bassingbourn c.1370. In 1381 the insurgent peasants destroyed Haselden's manor house at Morden and carried off his crops.

The aged Haselden sat for the county in 1384 and 1386 and probably died soon after. He left two sons, Richard and Thomas. Richard, the elder, M.P. for Cambridgeshire in 1394 and 1399, died in 1405, holding also the family's Littlington and Steeple Morden lands. His son and heir Thomas was just under 21.

Richard's brother Thomas, four times M.P. for Cambridgeshire 1395-1401, and sheriff 1399-1400, possibly inherited the reversion of Pichards manor, held for life by their father's widow Joan, but died in 1404.

Thomas son of Richard has gone mad by 1408 and died by 1417. Control of the Haselden lands passed after 1408 to Sir William Hasenhull, his late guardian and Joan's second husband. Hasenhull occupied most of the Guilden Morden fees in 1428, apparently for life. He died in 1443.

William Haselden, son of Thomas, under an agreement of 1433, had exchanged Avenels manor and lands elsewhere with his kinsman Hugh Haselden for the reversion of Pichards. Hugh released Bondesbury and Foxleys to feoffees for William.

William Haselden (d. 1480) was succeeded by his son John (d. 1504) whose son and heir Francis died in 1522. The succession of Francis' daughter Frances and her husband Sir Robert Peyton was challenged by Francis' brother Anthony Haselden (d. 1527), and, after Anthony's minor son William died without issue in 1537. by the heirs male, William and Richard Haselden, London tradesmen and sons of John Haselden's brother Richard.

Sir Robert Peyton won the ensuing lawsuits in the 1540s and died in 1550. When Frances, who had held the Morden manors in survivorship, died in 1582, her son and heir Robert Peyton at once sold them to Thomas Mead, justice of the Common Pleas. Mead died in 1585 leaving them for life to his widow Joan.

1 Thomas Haselden 1322 - 1391

...+Joan Burgh

......2 Joan Haselden

.........+Richard Bunny

......2 Richard Haselden - 1405

.........+Elizabeth Turbeville

............3 Thomas Haselden Abt 1380 - 1417

...............+ ?

..................4 William Haselden

......2 Roger Haselden

.........+Alice Bunny

............3 Hugh Haselden

...............+ ?

..................4 Thomas Haselden

..................4 Margaret "Margery" Haselden Abt 1421 -

.....................+Richard Peck

........................5 John Peck

...........................+Isobel Lacey

..............................6 Richard Peck

.................................+Joan Harrington

....................................7 John Peck 1527 -

.......................................+Alice Middleton

..........................................8 John Peck

.............................................+? Kirke

................................................9 Richard Peck

...................................................+? Stevens

......................................................10 John Peck

..........................................................+Margery

Passon

......2 Thomas Haselden

.........+?

............3 William Haselden - 1480

...............+Elizabeth Daneys

..................4 Richard Haselden

.....................+?

........................5 William Haselden

........................5 Richard Haselden

..................4 John Haselden

.....................+Elizabeth Cheneys

........................5 Anthony Haselden - 1527

........................5 Francis Haselden - 1522

...........................+Elizabeth Calthorpe Abt 1472 -

..............................6 Frances Haselden Abt 1494 -

.................................+Sir Robert Payton 1490 - 1550

.....................................7 Robert Payton Abt 1521 - 1527

........................................+Elizabeth Rich