Notes for: John 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:
John Wycliffe, second son. Married to Elizabeth, daughter of John Parkinson, of Beaumont Hill, in Co. Pal. Dun.
Info in the Pearson book (p. 90) says Elizabeth was John's first wife.
Anne Musser says this John married a Margaret Surtees. Linda Vear says he married Katherine Surtees, about 1540. Poulson, in his book on Holderness (v. 2, p. 239) says this John Wycliffe married secondly a daughter of Robert Thirkeld and what issue he had by her does not appear. The Poulson book does seem to be less thoroughly accurate than some others.
A list of the Roman Catholics in the county of York in 1604. Transcribed from the original ms. in the Bodleian library, and edited with genealogical notes by Edward Peacock, by Edward Peacock (1872), p. 80: The footnote says John married secondly a daughter of Robert Thorkild. The author had nowhere seen the first name of that wife.
The name of this Wycliffe also 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 "John Wycliffe of Ulvington, 2nd son, defendant with his father in a plea of trespass, 2 Henry VII [1486]. Heir male to his brother Ralph 27 Henry VIII [1535]." It says he married "Katherine, daughter and heir of Thomas Surtees of Dinsdale, jun."