Henry and Richard Lanyon married two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary Searle. Henry and Mary had ten children. This post is about their four sons who had children.
Henry and Mary’s son Henry married Elizabeth Lanyon the granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Searle!
John Lanyon 1782-1859
John was the eldest son of Henry and Mary. He married Peggy Vincent at St Allen in 1810. John was a farmer of 80 acres and a butcher at Zelah, St Allen. He and Peggy had fourteen children!
- William 1810-1898 married Mary Ann Bennett
- Henry 1812-1876 married Grace Rose Anna Bennett
- Simon 1815-1888 married Mary Batten
- Josiah 1816-1898 married Esther Brenton
- Paul 1817-1897 married Johanna Kendal
- Mary Ann 1822-1896 married James Polkinghorne at St Allen in 1846 – no children
- Elial 1824-1909 was a farmer and a Methodist preacher, he never married and died at Henver aged 86
- Caroline 1824-1893 married William Clark, a gardener and farmer, two children
- Sophia 1826-1847 never married, she committed suicide by throwing herself down a well, cause of death – temporary insanity
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- Ann Vincent 1827-1896 married James Williams, a farmer – no children
- Robert 1829-1909 married Mary Ann Grose Curnow
- John 1832-1916 married Annie Plimmer and Amelia Osborne
- Samuel 1833-1908 married Cecilia Edwards and Lucy Ellen Brown
- Elizabeth 1837-1897 married William Ripper Cock (that’s definitely one of the more memorable names on the tree!) at St Allen in 1858 three children and they emigrated to Wisconsin where the name was changed to Cox.
John died in 1859 and Peggy in 1877, they are both buried at St Allen. Their son erected a beautiful window in their memory in St Allen church.
William Lanyon 1791-1864
William was the second surviving son of Henry and Mary, they also had another son called William who died in infancy and was buried in 1875. William was a yeoman farmer of 280 acres, employing 7 labourers. He married Jane Veale Rowe at Newlyn East in 1836 and they had four children:
- Jane Veale 1839-1905 married Samuel Mitchell in 1859. They had nine children including Jane Veale Mitchell the early 20th century Lanyon researcher mentioned throughout this website. Jane (junior) was born in 1866 and died in 1929 (she was accidentally knocked over and killed by a passing train) a spinster.
- Mary Ellen 1841-1842 died in infancy
- Isabella 1842-1852 died young
- Charles Scott 1844-1890 married Elizabeth Jane Rowe
William died in 1864 aged 73 and was buried at Higher Treluddra.
Simon Searle Lanyon 1794-1858
Simon was a farmer and a great athlete.
“It will be in the recollection of many of the older Cornish people that the Henver family (of Lanyons) were remarkable for their physical build and great strength. Perhaps the best specimen of them in this respect was Simon Searle Lanyon whose powers when a young man were quite remarkable. Polkinghorne, who in the wrestling ring so manfully upheld his county in the contest with Cann for the championship of Devon and Cornwall could not stand before him. As a member of the Cornish Yeomanry Cavalry, he was their first athlete on their annual sport days of the Corps at the conclusion of their yearly training. The late Mr J.C.Lanyon of Redruth who was his second cousin took great delight in relating his feats on these occasions. One of the things which he did was to ride through the narrow lanes at full gallop, and with a cut of his sword divide two turnips placed opposite to each other on either side of the road!”
The Royal Cornwall Gazette Dec 1889
Simon never married but lived for many years with Elizabeth Batten/Batting a charwoman and they had a daughter:
- Priscilla 1832-1905 married Oliver Robert Northey – two sons
Simon died at St Merryn in 1858 from inflammation of the bowels. Elizabeth was present at his death.
Henry Lanyon 1797-1872
Henry was the youngest child of Henry and Mary. He married Elizabeth Lanyon, the daughter of his cousin Richard Lanyon. They had twelve children:
- Albert Cornelius 1834-1887 married Mary Ellen Varcoe
- Mary Searle 1835-1882 married William Collins, a smith – ten children
- Simon Searle 1837-1859 emigrated to Ballarat, Australia in 1857 and died in a mining accident in 1859 age 23. No children
- Emily 1838-1888 emigrated to Ballarat, Australia in 1857 and in 1859 married Thomas William Bull – eleven children
- Henry Scott 1839-1903 married Maria Westcott
- Lewis Edwin 1841-1886 married Sarah Osman
- Elizabeth Catherine 1842-1908 married Henry Olver, a carpenter at St Allen in 1860 emigrated to South Africa – six children
- Sarah 1844-1904 emigrated to Australia and married Robert Quine at Victoria in 1866 – no children
- Obed 1846-1914 farmer of Polstein, St Allen, he never married and was described by his cousin Simon Henry Lanyon in his diary as “a rough jolly good fellow who weighs 210lbs and is not at all fat.”
- Isabella 1848-1913 never married and worked as a grocer, draper and sub postmistress at Zelah, St Allen. The 1911 census mentions that she was paralysed. She lived with her sister Louisa and a niece, Mabel. She was very deaf and was killed when she failed to hear the approaching train at a rail crossing in Zelah.
- Louisa Ellen Jane 1850-1928 never married and lived with her sister Isabella
- Eliza Ellen 1852-1943 in 1886 she married William Phillips, a farmer, at Truro – three sons
Henry Lanyon was a farmer at Trevalsa and Simon Henry Lanyon described him in his diary as “Great Henry, the champion wrestler of Cornwall”
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