Ancestors who were vicars.

[CarolA3]

One thing to watch out for with the Clergy Database is that they can mix up the details of two different men with the same name.  I noticed this with a clerical father and son who had identical first and middle names as well as surname.

Carol

[arthurk]

I can't find anything at all about Isaiah Sutcliffe at the Clergy Database, though I think I read somewhere that it wasn't 100% complete. There are certainly some clergy who appear only as names from bishops' act books or registers, without links to further details, but a site search sometimes finds these. In this case it doesn't, but I'll keep trying.

Meanwhile, a bit more on Isaiah here:

https://archive.org/details/ancestryofwillia00erwi/page/260

ADDED:
I've checked the lists of entries from the act books etc of the Bishops of London from 1611 to 660, and there weren't any mentioning either Rettendon or Sutcliffe.

[coombs]

I can't find anything at all about Isaiah Sutcliffe at the Clergy Database, though I think I read somewhere that it wasn't 100% complete. There are certainly some clergy who appear only as names from bishops' act books or registers, without links to further details, but a site search sometimes finds these. In this case it doesn't, but I'll keep trying.

Meanwhile, a bit more on Isaiah here:

https://archive.org/details/ancestryofwillia00erwi/page/260

ADDED:
I've checked the lists of entries from the act books etc of the Bishops of London from 1611 to 660, and there weren't any mentioning either Rettendon or Sutcliffe.

Thanks.

While not definite, I did find an Isack Sutcliffe baptised in 1594 in Rochdale, and he had a brother Nathan. Sons of Henry. Reverend Isaiah had a son called Nathaniel. I have a feeling that Isaiah Sutcliffe was not from Essex. Seems he was in Rayleigh in 1629.

[arthurk]

I have a feeling that Isaiah Sutcliffe was not from Essex. Seems he was in Rayleigh in 1629.

I wondered about that because he was said to have married there in 1629, but I can't see anything about him in Rayleigh either.

[coombs]

I have a feeling that Isaiah Sutcliffe was not from Essex. Seems he was in Rayleigh in 1629.

I wondered about that because he was said to have married there in 1629, but I can't see anything about him in Rayleigh either.

Perhaps as you say, the Clergy list is not yet complete. He is said to be a Rev in several documents including that page of that book.

[Erato]

"Anyone else come across ancestors who were in the clergy?"

My tree is simply heaving with clergymen; not CoE, however.

[Andrew Tarr]

"Anyone else come across ancestors who were in the clergy?"

 
One of my aunts married a missionary in Kenya (and became one herself); and another married into a line of hereditary protestant bishops in Ireland.  Not first-division stuff, but different .....

[cristeen]

Anyone else come across ancestors who were in the clergy?

I have several Methodists including my grandfather but perhaps the most illustrious, although indirect, ancestor was Bernard Gilpin 'The Apostle of the North'. He was a Protestant based at Houghton-le-Spring (after several smaller places) and was arrested & sent to London for trial under Mary I. On the journey he broke his leg and while recovering Mary I died so he was reprieved. I am descended from his older brother William. Another brother, George, was ambassador to Elizabeth I

[jonw65]

PCC Will of Izaiah Sutcliffe, Clerk of Rettendon, Essex
19 June 1655
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D799701

Later, connected??
Lease for 9 years
George Carew of London, merchant, to Isaiah Sutcliffe of Reckendon, yeoman
20 Sep 1694
https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/result_details.aspx?ThisRecordsOffSet=1&id=184207