Notes for: John 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:

John Wycliffe, of Gayles, Esquire, barrister at law, baptized at Richmond 1 June 1724, and registered by mistake as Jonathan, died 6 June 1769, aet 46, buried at Kirkby Ravensworth. Married Elizabeth, daughter of William Scullard of London, merchant, died at York, 28 December 1777, buried at St. Michael's Belfry in that city.

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, Esq., of Gayles; born 1724; Barrister-at-law, of Gray's Inn, co. Middlesex; died 6th June, 1769, aged 45 years; buried at Kirkby Ravensworth. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Sculland of London, merchant; died at York 28th December, 1777; buried at St. Michael le Belfrey, in York.

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I got a lot of the baptism information on their children from Birth, Marriage, and Burial records of London.

He is called "John Wycliffe of Gray's Inn and Dalton Gales" in some other info. See also Harrison, Yorkshire, p. 157 and Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, ed. Clay, vol. ii, p. 356.

In Six North Country Diaries, by John Crawford Hodgson (1910) p. 221, it says that John Wycliffe, Esq. died on June 4, 1769. I wonder if June 6 wasn't his burial date. But so far, most evidence seems to point toward June 6.