Alice Wright

Alice Ryther was born 1480 in Yorkshire County, England and died about 1547 in Yorkshire, England.

family

She was one of the daughters and heirs of John Ryther, a 2nd brother of the house of Ryther who had sundry daughters, his coheirs, and his wife Isabel Sutton.

She married John Wright 1499 in Parish Church, Yorkshire, England, son of Rev John Wright. He was born 1476 in Kent, England, and died 1540 in Plowland, Yorkshire, England

Their children:

1. Robert (born about 1501-died Jul 1594 Welwick)
2. John
3. Christopher

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From http://oursoutherncousins.com/wright.html

John Wright married Alice Ryther, daughter of Sir John Ryther & Isabel Sutton.

they wedded at the close of the fourteenth, or in the beginning of the fifteenth century. "The estate of Plowland came into the Wright family in the reign of Henry VIII, owing to John Wright, Esquire (a man of Kent), having married Alice Ryther, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Sir John Ryther of Ryther, on the banks of the "lordly Wharfe," between York and Selby."
In 1519 Alice Ryther sold property at Ottringham, Yorkshire. Michaelmas, 11 Hen 8: Plaintiffs - William Grymston, etc. Deforciants John Wright and Alice his wife, one of the daughters of John Ryther, esq. re Messuage & 4 cottages with lands in Ottryngham, Wynested, etc. She was party to a land transaction in 1531 at Ottringham. Michaelmas, 23 Hen 8: James Fox & John Wilkynson, plaintiffs & John Wright and Alice his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of John Ryther re 5 messuages with lands in Ottryngham, Wynested, Hollym and Raynthorp, and also a 5th part, divided into 5 parts, of 5 messuages with lands in Penesthorp, Southorp, Kylnesey, Beverley and Holmeton, in which William Ryther has a life interest.

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• page 516 of The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness, in the ..., Volume 2 By George Poulson
• . page 351 of The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 by Flower, William, ca. 1498-1588; Norcliffe, Charles Best; Harleian Society Publication date 1881
• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=blomfiel...
• http://www.linleyfh.com/p788.htm#i21036
• http://oursoutherncousins.com/wright.html