Notes for: Thomas Wycliffe, Esq.

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:

Thomas Wycliffe, of Gayles, Esquire, baptized 19 March, 1688, to whom his brother left his estates, ob. about 1765, ?? nn. 76, buried at Kirkby Ravensworth. Married Catherine, daughter of Edward Carr, of Whitburne, in Co. Pal. Dun. died in 1732, buried at Kirkby Ravensworth.

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

This says he was heir to his half-brother Solomon.

Marshall Plantagenet's The History of Yorkshire: Wapentake of Gilling West, in the genealogy of the Wycliffes at Gayles (p. 157), says this:

Thomas Wycliffe of Gayles, born 1688, to whom his brother Solomon bequeathed all his estates; died circa 1765; aged 76 years; buried at Kirkby Ravensworth. He married Katherine, daughter of Edward Carr of Whalburne, co. Durham. Died 1732; buried at Kirkby Ravensworth.