Notes for: Ralph 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:

Ralph Wycliffe, living 1596, ob. S. P. 5 Jan 1606 at 14, and buried at Wycliffe.

This "ob. S. P." means "died without issue." It looks like he was 14 when he died, but I'm not 100% sure. I will go with that for now.

There is a pretty long inscription for him in Latin on his tomb inside the church. I have read that it says he was the only son of William Wycliffe. I just found a transcription of the Latin and it says:

"To Ralph Wycliffe, who died in the fourteenth year of his age, the 5th day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1606, in the inverse series of the fates, his surviving father, William Wycliffe, erected this monument, such as it is, to his only son, not without great wearniness of human affairs, a tribute of his piety and affection."