Notes for: Henry 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:

Henry Wycliffe, of Melmorby, in Com. York, Gent. fourth son, died about 1655. Whitaker says he had son John and "other issue."

Marshall Plantagenet, in The History of Yorkshire: Wapentake of West Gilling in the genealogy of the Wycliffes at Gayles (p. 157), says, "Henry Wycliffe of Melmorby, co. York, 4th son; ob 1654." He had son John Wycliffe, his heir, and other issue, both sons and daughters.