Notes for: Thomas 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:

Thomas Wycliffe, of Liverpool, merchant, baptized 21 March, 1728, died without issue about 1809, and buried at Liverpool. Married ____ daughter of ____. Living 1776.

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 Liverpool, merchant; born 1728; ob. 1809. His wife was living 1776.

The Monthly Magazine (London), v. 27 (1809), p. 205 says Mr. Thomas Wycliffe died at Liverpool in 1809 at the age of 81. He was "of an ancient family of that name at Galey, near Richmond, Yorkshire, and formerly a mercant of this town."