The Lanyon family in St Allen intermarried with the Vincent, the Clark, the Gill, the Hoskins, the Clyma and the Searle families of St Allen and the surrounding areas. Their children and grandchildren intermarried as well and it’s fair to describe this part of the tree as ‘complicated’! So complicated that I may not have it 100% right!
The Searles
When John Lanyon and Sarah Straight moved to St Allen three of their children married into the Searle family.
The Vincents
Richard and Henry Lanyons children married into the Vincent family. Three of Oliver Vincent and Catherine Paul’s children married three Lanyon cousins.
The Hoskins & Clarks
Where to begin? Paul Clark 1773-1854 married Ann Carveth Hoskins and they had a son also called Paul Clark born in 1805. When Ann Carveth Hoskins died Paul married Jane Lanyon (the daughter of Henry Lanyon & Mary Searle) then had a son called William Clark.
Ann Carveth Hoskins had a sister called Dorothy who married Simon Lanyon, the brother of Richard Lanyon. Paul Clark 1805-1888 married Mary Lanyon who was the daughter of Richard Lanyon and Elizabeth Vincent and when Mary died he married her sister Louisa Lanyon! Paul’s half brother William married Caroline Lanyon his mother’s niece.
Not shown on the diagram above is the fact that Peggy and Elizabeth Vincent are sisters!
There is also a Thomas Hoskin/Hoskyn who married Sarah Lanyon (the daughter of Henry and Mary Searle) in 1803 at St Allen who is probably related to the other Hoskins but I haven’t worked out the connection yet!
The Gills
The Gill family also married into the Lanyon and Hoskins families.
The Clymas
Mary Ellen Lanyon and her sister Dorothy Hoskins Lanyon (the daughters of Simon Lanyon and Dorothy Hoskins) married an uncle and nephew. Dorothy married John Clyma and Mary Ellen married his nephew George Clyma.
To add to the confusion George Clyma’s father William Clyma had a wife and mother with the same name, Jenney Jennings. It appears that his wife was the niece of his mother but I haven’t got proof of that!
All clear then?
The Lanyons 