Notes for: Margaret Girlington

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. It says the first three generations "are not sufficiently proved." Here is the info given there on this family:

Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Girlington, of Hackkforth, Esquire, first wife.

Marshall Plantagenet, in The History of Yorkshire: Wapentake of West Gilling in the genealogy of the Wycliffes at Gayles (p. 157), lists him from Hackford in York County and that she was John's first wife.

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: There is a Margaret wife of John Wyclif gent" listed along with several people from the Girlington family. Based on that, I'd say Margaret Girlington Wycliffe was still alive in 1604.

This marriage is mentioned in Collectanea topographica et genealogica, vol. 6, pp. 190-191.