Notes for: Francis 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:

Francis Wycliffe, of _____, third son. Married Jane, daughter of Dr. Matthew Levet, of Fingell, in Com. York.

And here is additional information from The Genealogist (New Series), H. W. Forsyth Harwood, v. xxi. George Bell & Sons: London, 1905, pp. 95-99:

Adds that Matthew Levet was the rector of Fingill in co. Ebor.

Marshall Plantagenet, in The History of Yorkshire: Wapentake of West Gilling in the genealogy of the Wycliffes at Gayles (p. 157), says, "Francis Wycliffe of Wycliffe, 3rd son, executor to the will of his brother Ambrose. He married Johanna, dau. of Mathew Levett of Turgill, co. York, D.D." They had children.