Richard Lanyon 1739-aft. 1779
Richard was baptised at St Buryan in 1739 and married Mary Gomer at Paul in 1766. We know very little about Richard, not even the date of his death. He and Mary had seven children:
- Richard 1766-1766 died in infancy
- Richard 1767-1767 died in infancy
- David 1768-1846 married Elizabeth Carter
- Mary 1771-1771 died in infancy
- Richard 1773- was a farmer who married Anne Chapple, a widow, at Paul in 1809 – no trace of children
- Mary 1776- possibly married Richard Crocker at Paul in 1802, no further trace
- John 1779-1831 married Grace Lanyon
David Lanyon 1768-1846
David was baptised at Paul in 1768 and married Elizabeth Carter at Paul in 1790. They had two children:
- David 1799-bef. 1838 David was a shoemaker who married Anne Strick at St Buryan 1831. He died before 1838 as Anne ‘Street’ remarried that year. There were no children.
- John 1803-1866 was baptised in Mousehole in 1803. He was a fisherman and only married Grace Crocker in 1848 at the age of 45. They had one daughter Elizabeth Harvey Lanyon born in 1849 who married Robert Allison, a boilermaker, in 1874.
David senior was admitted to the Penzance Dispensary in 1835, he was described as a poor man. He died age 79 at Paul in 1846. His wife died the following year.
John Lanyon 1779-1831
John was a fisherman, he married Grace Lanyon his cousin at St Buryan in 1804. She was the daughter of Charles Lanyon and Martha Ellis. They had four children before Grace died of the effects of childbirth in 1810.
- Mary 1805- no further trace
- Martha 1807-1884 married John Watt, an iron founder at Phillack in 1829 – eight children
- David – 1807 died in infancy
- Grace 1810-1810 Grace died suddenly age 1 month and her mother Grace died of the effects of childbirth two days later.
John remarried in 1817. His second wife was Alice Mann, there were no children of this marriage.
With no male descendants to carry on the Lanyon name this little branch of the tree died out.
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