Notes for: Solomon 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:

Solomon Wycliffe, of Gayles and Thorpe, Esquire, son and heir, born July 19, 1675, at Murton, in Westmerland, died without issue, buried 7 June, 1750. at Kirby Ravensworth.

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

Solomon Wycliffe of Gayles and Thorpe-upon-Tees, born 19th January, 1675; buried at Kirkby Ravensworth 1759, s. p.

However, looking at the records in North Riding records, v. 1-9, 1883-92 (North Riding Record Society, London); n. s. v. 1-4, 1894-97, it seems apparent this Solomon Wycliffe died about 1730. Either the 1730 on the stone was misread as 1750, or that stone applies to some other Solomon Wycliffe. See page 129 in these records, for example, where "Mary MIllwood" is mentioned as the only sister and heir of Solomon Bodine. And Thomas Wycliffe is his executor in the early 1730's.