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

John Wycliffe, Esquire, baptized 27 December 1757; sometime and officer in the army; living at Bishops Auckland in Com. Pal. Dun. 1788, died without issue in May, 1806, and buried at Newton Kyme. Married Elizabeth, daughter of William Marshal, of Newton Kyme, in Com. York, Gent, married October 1787.

The Notes and Queries article on Catherine says she only had one brother, Thomas, who did not die young. I wonder if this John is placed in the wrong family.

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

John Wycliffe, born 1759. Sometime an officer in the army; was living at Bishop Auckland, co. Durham, 1788; ob. 1806; buried at Kirkby Ravensworth, s.p. He married Elizabeth, dau. of William Marshall of Newton Kyme; married in October 1787. They had no offspring.