We’ve followed John & Peggy’s large family in part 1 of this post now we’ll follow William & Henry.

William & Jane’s Son

William Lanyon and Jane Veale Rowe had just one son Charles Scott.

Charles Scott Lanyon 1844-1890

Charles was born at Newlyn East in 1844, he was a farmer at Higher Treluddra and married Elizabeth Jane Rowe in 1872. Charles was accidentally killed in 1890 by being thrown from his horse at Shepherd’s Gate, Newlyn East. (Source – Royal Cornwall Gazette).

They had four children:

• William 1874-1956 he was a farmer who married Amy Elizabeth Bice at Colan, Cornwall in 1899 – no children
• Frances 1875-1875 died in infancy
• Jane Rowe 1877-1953 married Francis Rowe, a farmer in 1899 and her name became Jane Rowe Rowe! No children
• Thomas Rowe 1879-1958 he was a farmer too, he emigrated to Canada. Then he returned home in 1914 and fought in the first World War, he was a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corp. After the war he returned to Canada. He never married.

This little branch of the tree has died out.

Henry & Elizabeth’s Sons (and daughter!)

Henry and Elizabeth were first cousins once removed. They had twelve children and of them, three sons to carry on the Lanyon name.

Albert Cornelius 1834-1887

Albert was born at St Allen in 1834 and was a farmer at Trevalsa. He married Mary Ellen Varcoe in 1883 at St Erme, he died in 1887. Albert and Mary had three sons:

• Albert Cornelius 1884-1960 he was a farmer at St Allen. In 1914 he married Margaret Louise May – two children
• John Henry 1886-1963 he too was a farmer at Trevalsa, in 1933 he married Charlotte Adeline Carveth – no children
• Obed Howard 1887-1970 also a farmer at Trevalsa, bachelor, no children

Emily Lanyon 1838-1888

Emily was Albert Cornelius’ younger sister. She and her brother Simon Searle Lanyon emigrated to Australia in 1857. She went to help her aunt Bella Lanyon and Uncle Thomas Johns with their children and working in their shop on Eureka Street, Ballarat. Her brother Simon set up a mining business with Thomas William Bull. Simon was killed in an accident at their Ophir mine in 1859. Thomas went to break the news to his sister Emily and months later they were married. They had eleven children:

• Sarah Ann Bull 1860-1889 Sarah developed appendicitis and died at Whitton railway station whilst waiting for a train to take her to hospital.

• Eliza Jane Bull 1862-1882 died age 20, spinster

• Elizabeth Emily Bull 1863-1934 married William Davies
• Henry James Bull 1865-1947 married Charlotte Tresilian
• William Thomas Bull 1866-1956 married Agnes Kock

• Albert Edwin Bull 1869-1952 married Lucy Taylor Johnstone

• Mary Ellen Bull 1871-1954 married Alfred George driver

• John Louis (Jack) Bull 1873-1951 married Matilda May Kock
• Adelaide Sibella Bull 1875-1969 married George Cormack
• Charles Wager Lanyon Bull 1877-1954 married Hanna Pearce
• Caroline Louisa Bull 1879-1957 married Archibald Gates

Henry Scott Lanyon 1839-1903

Henry was born at St Allen and emigrated to Ballarat in Australia in the 1860s. He was a shepherd and leased a paddock so he could run his own sheep. He married Maria Wescott in 1874. They met when Henry went to visit his cousin Richard Lanyon who was working for Isaac Westcott, Maria’s father. Henry died in 1903 after suffering with cancer for 18 months.

They had six children:

• Henry Maynard 1876-1967 he was a teacher, he married Mabel Wilkinson in 1903 – six children. Henry was quite delicate and instead of farm work he became a teacher.

• Albert Vincent 1878-1953 he married Emily Margaret McRorie in 1905 – five children

• Elizabeth Jane 1881-1933 spinster

• Annie Violet 1882-1973 married Percy Garnet Weaver in 1908 – five children

• Thomas Wescott 1885-1965 married Margaret Ethel Smith in 1909 – three children

• Lewis Isaac 1887-1925 married Elsie Elizabeth Lewis in 1913 at Victoria. One son. He returned to Cornwall in 1925 and made lots of notes about Lanyon family history. He died of Cholera after drinking contaminated water in Cornwall and was buried at St Allen Church

Lewis Edwin Lanyon 1841-1886

He was born at St Allen in 1841 and worked as a farmer and engineer. In 1877 he married Sarah Osman – six children:

• Elizabeth Maud 1977-1934 she married John Henry Trenerry and they had one son, they emigrated to Omaha Nebraska.
• Eliza Helen 1880-1956 she married William Thomas Argall Searle, a farmer, seven children
• Isabella 1881-1944 married Samuel Arthur Chenoweth in 1903 – four children
• Louisa 1882-1958 married Henry Woolcock in 1904. Two sons
• Mabel 1885-1968 married Thomas Roberts in 1910, one son
• Louis Edwin 1886-1955 he was a bookkeeper who emigrated to Omaha Nebraska, married Lillian Mae Ashley – two daughters

Here we must leave Henry & Mary’s branch of the family.