Notes for: William Wycliffe

This family comes from An History of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York; together with those parts of the Everwicschire of Domesday which form The Wapentakes of Lonsdale, Ewecross, and Amunderness, in the Counties of York, Lancaster, and Westmoreland, by Thomas Dunham WHITAKER. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees (and others), 1823. 2 volumes. Here is the info given there on this family:

William Wycliffe, fourth son, married _____, widow of _____ Ashe.

I can't read the name "Ashe" very well. It is defintely "_she" though. I think this name is more commonly written Aske.

There is some important information in Flower's Visitations of Yorkshire, p. 3, which I think might apply to this William Wycliffe. If it does, then this William's wife might have been an Aslakeby. Here is what the note there says about this:

William Aislaby of Barden made his will 3 March, 1572-3, naming his brothers-in-law William Wycliffe and William Grimston, and was buried 4 May, 1573. By his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wray of St. Nicholas, sister of Sir. Christopher Wray, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of England, who was buried 19 Feb. 1586-7, he had Percival Aislaby, his executor, and Margery Aislaby, who had five children at the date of her father's will, by her husband Adam Thomlinson.

Note from Dave: This William Aislaby was the son of William Aslakeby of Bardon in Richmondshire who married a daughter of Wycliffe.