The main problem with John being the son of George is with his age.

Analysis of the ages at which men in the Wills families in Bridford got married gives an average age of just under 26 - this appears to be fairly constant through time.  However I have only found one man married at the age of 22 and nobody younger so if John was the son of George he was exceptional in this regard.

However, the other option - that John was the son of Thomas - is equally fraught.  Thirty-three would have been a very late age to get married and even thirty was unusual.

If he was the son of George the trail goes cold because George does not appear to have come from Bridford.  If, however, he was the son of Thomas then it is possible that the earlier ancestry looks something like this:

• Thomas was born in 1686.  The name of his wife has not been established.  They may have had other children - Thomas William and a daughter - Mary.
• It is possible that his father was called John (mother again unknown).  Alternatively, and better for the purpose of this story, his parents were Thomas and Mary (nee Page) who married in 1680 or 1681.  They had five other children, possibly seven.
• This Thomas was born in 1655 and his father was called John (again the mother is unknown).  He was the youngest of John's four sons.
• John was born in 1616 or 1618 the son of either Nicholas and Anhes (?Agnes) or Henrye Wyll and Alse (?Alice) or Henrye Wyll and Elizabeth.   These Henry's might be the same person if he married twice.
• A Henry was born in 1591 - who could be either of the above - the son of yet another Thomas.

A fuller analysis of early WILLS families in Bridford can be found here