Sir John Goodricke 3rd Baronet.

John Goodricke Became the Third Baronet.Sir John Goodricke third Baronet, was only son of Sir John, the first Baronet, by his second wife, Elizabeth, relict of William, third Viscount Fairfax, of Gilling. He was born 16th October, 1654, and resided at Altofts, near Normanton, where he had a mansion house, and where several of his children were born. He succeeded, under his father's will, to a farm at Haddockstones, near Ripon, and it is probable that he lived there during the earlier part of his life. He married Sarah, daughter of Sir Richard Hopkins, of Coventry, Knight, Serjeant-at-Law, M.P., by whom he had five sons and six daughters.
Sir John succeeded his half-brother, Sir Henry, in March 1705, in his fifty-first year; but he survived him only a few months, dying on 10th December following.
His will, dated 21st November, 1705, was proved at York 22nd September, 1706, by his eldest son, Sir Henry. He gives "unto Sarah Goodricke my deare and loving wife all and singuler my goods chattels and household stuff whatsoever as the same are stand and be at my mansion house at Altofts in the said County of Yorke and also all the gold and plate whatsoever in her or my possession to her own use and to dispose of as she thinks fitting and convenient." All the rest of his goods, chattels, and personal estate; and all the lands purchased by him in co. York, and the houses in York called Trinityes, he gives unto his eldest son Henry, subject to the following legacies. To Francis, his second son, £600; to Richard, his third son, £8oo; to John Savile, his fourth son, £700; to William, his youngest son, £1000; and to Katherine, Mary, Elizabeth, Anna Maria, and Henrietta, his daughters, each the sum of £1000
Dame Sarah Goodricke resided at Altofts after her husband's death. She made her will 23rd February, 1731, and it was proved at York, 5th March, 1732, by her grandson, John Goodricke, Esq. She leaves the whole of her personal estate to her grandson, John Goodricke, subject to some small legacies to her daughters and grandchildren.