Notes for: Robert Wycliffe

He was named in his mother's will. She gave him all her goods and chattels in Aldborough and all the corn grown in the fields there, some other things, and all her land "in or at Crosbye cote." She also gives him all her purchased land in Langthorne. See The Publications of the Surtees Society, v. 26 (1853), pp. 156-164.

Flower's Visitations (p. 353) says he was living in 1592.

The name of this Wycliffe comes from a Wycliffe pedigree in The History of Yorkshire; Wapentake of Gilling West, by Marshall General Plantagenet Harrison (1885). I don't know where Harrison got this information. I can only assume it is guesswork on his part from looking at old records. Harrison's pedigree seems to be the only one that goes back this far; so I will go with it for now.

About him the pedigree says "Robert Wycliffe of Aldburgh, son and heir, aged 20 years 1 Elizabeth [1558]. Executor to his mother's will conjointly with Thomas Wery of Richmond." It says he was married and had children, but they are not named.