Hugh was the son of Ralph Lanyon, an agricultural labourer, and Margaret Pearce. Ralph and Margaret married at Paul in 1796 and Hugh was their second child.
Age 24 Hugh enlisted in the army. He was a Colour Sergeant in the Royal Sappers & Miners.
While bound for Vera Cruz in the ship ‘Cambria’ he helped rescue 551 of the passengers and crew of the ‘Kent’ an East India ship which caught fire in the Bay of Biscay in Feb 1825.
Connolly, in his ‘History of the Royal Sappers and Miners’ p309, writes of him ‘Sergeant Hugh Lanyon, after Sergeant – Major Forbes’ removal, was appointed to the charge of the detachment at Sandhurst College, and carried on the file details in every way to the satisfaction of the authorities. For many years, as a private and non-commissioned officer, he worked at the College, and his example had the best effect on the successive parties with which he served. As a practical sapper he was one of the ablest and most skilful in the corps, and in the rapidity with which he threw up earth works was unsurpassed. Sir Charles Pasley has done him the honour by noticing the extraordinary labours of the sergeant in his ‘Practical Operations for a Siege’. His willing ness and ability in this respect covered, in great measure, his educational deficiencies. In charge of the detachment he displayed his usual industry and exertion, kept his men in perfect discipline and order… so effectively were all the instructions carried out, that the governor of the college, with the sanction of the Master-General, presented him in November (1837) with a case of drawing instruments bearing an inscription ‘flattering to his zeal and services.’
Shortly afterwards he was promoted to colour-sergeant and served in Canada during the rebellion.
Somewhat broken in health he was discharged in 1844 and became a surveyor on the Trent and Mersey Canal, working under James Forbes. He died in 1846 at Lawton in Cheshire.
He was a ‘remarkable man with rather more brawn than brain one suspects‘ (P.A Lanyon-Orgill).
Connolly recounts a story about him while building a stockade at Mississawra in Canada in 1842; ‘six men complained to him of the heavy task they were subjected to in removing timbers about 15 feet long and 12 inches square….Lanyon made no observation, but shouldered one of the unweildy logs and, to the amazement of the grumblers, carried it to the spot unassisted.’
In 1843 he was in Ireland and was sent to explore a sewer running into the Liffe river which might provide a means of entry into Dublin Castle. ‘He did so and found that a strong iron grating existed in the passage, which would effectually prevent the supposed entrance. In this duty, being much exposed to the influence of noxious vapours, he soon afterwards was seized with fever and jaundice, which shortened his days.’ (Connolly).
Whilst exploring the National Archives catalogue I came across an extract from the Lostwithiel Sessions which opened a really complicated can of worms!
On 11 January 1781 Richard Lanyon and his wife, Elizabeth, charged with assault against Sarah Bishop, base child of Richard Lanyon, changed their plea to guilty and were fined 6d each. (Source – QS/1/4/292-298)
That was the first mention of Richard Lanyon’s illegitimate daughter, I had to find out more!
It didn’t take long to find the baptism of Sarah Lenyne Bishop at Newlyn East on 14 March 1774, the base daughter of Mary Bishop. Assuming that Sarah was baptised shortly after her birth that would make her just 6 or 7 at the time of the assault. At a time when it was common for children to be chastised this must have been far more serious to lead to an actual charge of assault.
Who was Richard Lanyon?
He was baptised on 1 January 1749 at St Allen, the son of John Lanyon (Lanion) and Sarah Straight. John and Sarah had six children: Margaret 1736-1802, John 1740-1771, William 1743-1763, Richard 1746-1747, Richard 1749-1838 and Henry 1752-1838. The three surviving children married into the Searle family. Margaret married John Searle and Richard and Henry married two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary Searle.
Elizabeth and Mary Searle were the children of William Searle and Isabella Stephens. William Searle jr was the son of William Searle 1675-1736.
The Searle Tree
Richard Lanyon was a yeoman and his mother, Sarah Straight (Lanyon) bought the farm Polstain, at Zelah near St Allen, for him. He later bought the farm Lanner. On 18 April 1774, just four months after his illegitimate daughter Sarah was baptised, he married Elizabeth Searle at St Allen. He and Elizabeth had 10 children. Elizabeth died in 1825 and in 1827 Richard married again to a widow, Catherine Charles. He died on 17 February 1838 at the age of 89.
Richard Lanyon’s mother, Sarah Straight was the sister of Mary Bishop’s grandfather, making Richard and Mary first cousins, once removed. The family connections don’t end there.
Poor old Ancestry’s family tree templates can’t quite cope with that! Richard appears twice!
Straight family tree
But it gets even more complicated because Mary Bishop’s grandmother is Jane Searle (Straight) 1704- and Jane was the sister to Richard Lanyon’s father-in-law, William Searle 1708-. So Mary Bishop’s granny was Elizabeth Searle (Lanyon)’s aunt!
To complicate things further Mary Bishop had a brother called Richard (1759-1848) and Richard Bishop married Elizabeth Gill. Their daughter Elizabeth Gill Bishop married William Lanyon, the grandson of Richard Lanyon and Elizabeth Searle!
Bishop, Lanyon, Gill Tree
So that’s all clear then?
So what of Sarah Lenyne Bishop?
Her existence can’t have been a secret, the whole family are interrelated and must surely have known about Mary Bishop’s illegitimate child. When Sarah was born Richard Lanyon was unmarried, why did he not marry Mary? We’ll never know.
We’ll also never know the reason for the assault but just a few months after the Lostwithiel Sessions Sarah Lanyon Bishop was apprenticed to James Richards of St Erme, a carpenter. Did Richard Lanyon pay for her apprenticeship?
Apprenticeships Tuesday 3 April 1781
Carpentry is an unusual job for a girl but not completely unknown, the other female apprentices were training to become mantua-makers and milliners, why did Sarah end up as a carpentry apprentice?
Is there a family connection between the Lanyons and Richards families? Richard Lanyon’s son William married a Peggy Exter Richards, could she be related to James of St Erme? That’s a question for another day!
L0038569 Feme de Charpentier, A female Carpenter Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Feme de Charpentier, A female Carpenter with tools costume and apparatus Coloured engraving 18th Century By: Martin Engelbrecht50 coloured plates / engraved by Martin Engelbrecht, from 18th-cent. German works. Published: c. 1721
Sadly we don’t know what happened to Sarah. There is no trace of a Sarah Lanyon/Lenyne Bishop marrying or being buried in England. There are lots of Sarah Bishops the name is quite common and it’s not possible to prove if any of them is our Sarah Bishop.
Sarah’s mother, Mary, died unmarried in 1810 at Newlyn East. She was buried on 4 August.
Richard Lanyon left a will but there is no mention of Sarah. His estate was valued at under £300.
Researching a family often necessitates many hours trawling through online resources for any mention of the family surname. A trawl through the Somerset Heritage Centre online index produced the deeds for a farm and lands at St Decumans and the name Thomas Lanyon.
The record starts on 13 Aug 1601. ‘Thomas Fulford of Fulford, Devon, Esq. enfeoffed to John Hooper of Ould Cleve, yeoman, a messuage known as Hooper’s Tenement and ten acres of land, part of the manor of Williton Fulford’ The deeds show the various tenants over the years. In 1715/6 John Leach of Bristol, ‘powterer’ and Sarah his wife (daughter and heir of Robert Mawdsley of Bristol, mariner and brother of Richard Mawdsley of Williton mortgaged the property to Arthur Thomas of Bristol, ‘powterer’. On 1 Jul 1718 John Leach mortgaged the property , by lease and release, to Abraham Lloyd, merchant, John Andrews, merchant, Richard Stafford, merchant and Samuel Cox, soapboiler, all of Bristol.
On 13 Mar 1718/19 John Rowe Esq and Martin Innys and Milborn Taylor, gents, all of Bristol , assigned the property to Daniel Woolmer, haberdasher, Thomas Lanyon, pewterer and George Bridges the younger, distiller, all of Bristol and John Roberts of Bedminster, cotton weaver (all creditors of John Leach, who was now bankrupt.)
So who was Thomas Lanyon and where does he fit on the tree?
Thomas was working as a pewterer (a tinsmith) from around 1715 and is last mentioned in 1755.
In 2021 this charger made by Thomas sold for £318.
Thomas was apprenticed to John Batcheler of Bristol on 2 Feb 1707 and is free by 9 Apr 1715. He’s mentioned in the Poll Books of 1721 and 1739 as of St Nicholas Bristol, the last mention of him in is 1755.
Poll Book 1754 mentions father and son.
We know Thomas Lanyon married someone called Anne before 1725 but I can’t find a record of the marriage anywhere in England. Her name is mentioned alongside Thomas’ apprentices.
They had at least one son, Francis Lanyon, who was baptised on 29 Aug 1725 at St Nicholas, Bristol. He was also working as a pewterer on 26 Jun 1747. In the 1754 Poll Book he is listed as of St Nicholas in Bristol.
Baptism of Francis Lanyon – St Nicholas Bristol
Thomas had at least two apprentices; Thomas Page who was indentured to Lanyon between 1729 and 1737 and Robert Bush who was indentured at a cost of £50 between the years 1748 and 1755. In 1765 he was based in the High Street in Bristol.
To give you an idea of the size of Lanyon’s business, in the 1740s he exported 1148lbs of pewter in one year. The book ‘Old Pewter, its Makers and Marks’ described Thomas Lanyon as being from Bristol and Coventry but I can’t find any records placing him in Coventry.
Lanyon’s Pewter Marks
The same book mentions a Thomas Lanyon of Coventry in 1774. This could be a son or even a grandson but I can find no trace of a baptism, marriage or burial.
A trawl through St Nicholas, Bristol’s parish registers reveals two baptisms which may be relevant: William & Anne Lanyen, twin children of Eli and Anne Lanyen, baptised on 3 Dec 1723 and three days later, William Lanyen and Anne Lanyen both buried 6 Dec 1723. Who was Eli Lanyen and was he any relation to Thomas Lanyon?
Sadly the records do not give us any answers. We don’t know if Eli was related to him or if it was just a coincidence that two men called Lanyon/Lanyen had wives both called Anne and were baptising children at the same time in the same area.
To complicate things even further there is a marriage of an Ann Lanyon/Lanion to a William Wayne/Wain at St Nicholas Bristol on 10 Sep 1758. They had a daughter Anna Maria Wayne. William Wayne was a metallurgist who went to Cornwall with his daughter, presumably after his wife died, to teach the Cornish metallurgy (Jane Veale Mitchell research). Both William and Anna feature in several Lanyon wills and are left very large bequests. They are related to Tobias and Mary Lanyon (the children of Francis Lanyon and Phillipp Nicholls of Sancreed).
Tobias’ Will, proved 1779, mentions ‘…my nephew William Wayne gentleman late of the City of Bristol, now residing with me (at Penzance) and my niece Anna Maria Wayne his daughter….’ Tobias bequeathes them £5000!
Tobias’ Will – PROB 11/1050/103
Tobias’ sister, Mary, also had her will proved in 1779. She bequeathes her nephew William Wayne £1000 and her niece, his daughter, £2000.
Mary’s Will – PROB/11/1051/117
Tobias and Mary clearly regard William Wayne as their nephew which implies that his wife, Ann Lanyon, was their niece.
It was time to look at Tobias & Mary’s branch of the tree and see what information I could find.
The Sancreed branch of the Lanyon family tree.
Tobias and Mary were the children of Francis Lanyon and Phillipp Nicholls of Sancreed. Francis was the son of John Lanyon, called ‘The Golden Lanyon’ as he made so much money from tin. John was a grandson of John Lanyon Esq and Phelype Milliton.
Tobias and Mary had a brother called Thomas and whilst I cannot prove that he was the Thomas who was a successful pewterer in Bristol, it does seem likely.
Tobias and Mary’s sister Jane died in 1738 and she leaves her brother Thomas the sum of one guinea in gold to buy him a ring.
Thomas had a son called Francis Lanyon, perhaps he was named after his father, who died in 1725, or his elder brother Francis, who died in 1723.
This branch of the tree now looks like this –
So Thomas Lanyon of Bristol was born in Sancreed, Cornwall in 1691 and died sometime after 1755. We don’t know what happened to his wife, Anne. We know that his son Francis became a pewterer but we don’t know if he married or had any children (the Thomas Lanyon working as a pewterer in Coventry in 1774 may be his son). There is no record of a birth of a daughter Ann Lanyon but we do have a record of her marriage to William Wayne.
Bristol, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938
Their marriage was solemnised in the presence of one Thomas Lanyon!
Anna Maria Wayne married Samuel Bird Esq. in London in 1784.
Marriage Register – St James Piccadilly, Westminster
By 1790 William Wayne was dead and administration of Tobias’ will passed to Anna Maria Bird the residuary legatee.
I found one possible burial entry for William at St Philip and St Jacob in Bristol on 19 Feb 1787. If it is ‘our’ William Wayne, he died of asthma.
Bristol Archives; Bristol, England; Bristol Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: P/St P&J/R/1/5
Anna was left a very wealthy young woman with bequests of several thousand pounds, a huge sum at that time.
Sadly she died on 8 Apr 1803, at East Stonehouse in Devon, but her will requests that she be interred at Sancreed in Cornwall. She was just 40, widowed, and suffering from Consumption (TB). She and Samuel were childless so her fortune was left to various cousins. There is a plaque in Sancreed church which reads:-
‘Sacred to the memory of Anna Maria Bird, widow of Samuel Bird, of Ridgeway in the county of Devon, Esqr. She died the 8th day of April, 1803; aged 40 years. Her body is deposited in a vault with the remains of her relatives, Josiah Lanyon, Esqr, and Jane his sister.’ (https://sancreedopccornwall.tripod.com/id1.html)
Sarah was baptised at Sancreed, Cornwall in 1690. She was the second daughter of Charles Lanyon and Sarah Tresilian and her grandfather was called ‘The Golden Lanyon’ due to his great wealth.
Sarah was the second of three daughters and they also had a younger brother Abraham. We know very little about Sarah; she witnessed the will of Anne Basset of Manwinnion, Illogan in 1713 and was mentioned in the 1778 will of Mary Lanyon and left the considerable sum of £100.
Sarah never married and appears to have lived in Penzance for most of her life.
We do know that at the age of 95 Sarah sold her reserved pew seat at St Mary’s Church Penzance. It was the 5th seat from the stairs in the north gallery of the chapel and it was sold for 7 Guineas. (Source – CRO P179/2/4/8)
Perhaps she didn’t think that she would require the seat for much longer. In the event she lived to the grand old age of 102 and was buried on the 10 January 1793!
Henrietta was the eldest daughter of Henry and Isabella Lanyon (see the post Captain Cork!)
Henrietta was born in 1818, her brother Henry Scott a year later. He died aged 19 of a fever. Elizabeth Caroline was born in 1824 and died aged 14 of water on the brain. Charles was born in 1826 and died aged 16 of TB.
Henrietta, as the sole surviving child, set out to commemorate her parents by installing a beautiful stained glass window at St Allen church in their memory.
She also made a number of donations to Truro cathedral, including her father’s jewelled sword and gold snuff box. These items are now lost.
But her pièce de résistance was the lectern at Truro cathedral!
Postcard of Truro Cathedral showing the pulpit, Bishop’s throne and lectern.
The eagle was chosen to represent St John the Evangelist. Henrietta paid £550 for the lectern, a huge sum in those days and despite that they spelt her name incorrectly on the commemorative plaque! Harriett rather than Henrietta!
James Lanyon was arrested for stealing a horse rug on 11 May 1873 and stealing a horse (presumably to go with the rug!) on 26 May 1873. The horse belonged to William Uren of the Devon and Cornwall Artillery Militia. James appeared at the midsummer assizes at Bodmin and was tried by Sir Charles Brune Graves Sawle.
James appears to have been caught ‘red handed’ as he plead guilty and was sentenced to six months hard labour at the house of correction at Bodmin. That meant the dreaded treadmill.
I found a second conviction for James in 1873. he was found guilty of stealing Fras. Osborne’s trousers at Camborne. He was described as crippled in his right hand and having an ‘enlargement in right breast’. Again he was sentenced to the treadmill.
In 1874 he was convicted of trespassing on the land of Gustavus Lambart Basset esq, in Illogan, in search of game. His description is as follows: Roman nose, eyes rather small, right forefinger small and useless. Again he was sentenced to the treadmill.
British Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
James Lanyon was aged just 19 at his conviction in 1873 (born in 1854) and a labourer. James is quite a common name in the Lanyon family but it didn’t take long to find him on the tree.
James was the son of William Lanyon and Mary Maddern.
James’ grandfather, William Lanyon 1767-1836, was transported to Australia!
James’ parents married in 1841 at St Buryan and by 1861 they were living in Lelant. By 1871 James was no longer living at home but I can’t find him on the census. He may have been avoiding the authorities!
After jail we lose track of James but he may be the James Lanyon aged 21 who sailed to Australia in 1875 and was described as a copper miner. He may have died, prison wasn’t conducive to good health and a long life.
Tobias and Mary Lanyon were ‘cousins german’ or first cousins, next of kin and co-administrators of Abel Angove of Trevenson, Illogan. The only problem was which Tobias and Mary Lanyon and how were they connected to Abel Angove?
Trevenson House Pool, Illogan
Abel Angove died following a fall from his horse, he was buried on 5 Aug 1767. There is a letter at Kresen Kernow from Francis Basset claiming the horse (the cause of death) by ‘deodhand’ as Lord of the Manor of Tehidy. (Source – TEM/1/10 dated 4 Aug 1767- Francis didn’t hang around, the letter was written before Abel was interred!!)
Abel was an attorney and a widower, he had married Jane Phillips the daughter of Mr. Henry Phillips in 1729 at Phillack. Jane died 13 Aug 1730 and Abel never remarried or had children.
Why were Lanyons his next of kin? I started digging!
Abel was the son of Abel Angove gent. He was born in 1673 the son of Reginald/Reynald Angove.
The Parochial History of Cornwall founded on the manuscript histories of Mr Hals and Mr Tonkin by Davies Gilbert (Vol II p.234, 1838) gives the following information about Reginald Angove.
“In this parish, at….,liveth Reginald An-Gove, gent. i.e. Reginald the smith, a sirname (sic) assumed in memory of his first ancestor, who was by trade and occupation a smith.
And of this sort of sirname in England, thus speaks Verstegan.
‘From whence came smith, all be it knight or ‘squire? But from the smith that forgeth in the fire.’
This Reginald Angove is that crafty tinner, whom common fame reports to have gotten a considerable estate by labouring, adventuring, and dealing in tin, both in the mines below and blowing houses above ground, by indirect arts and practices; for which, about the 8th of William and Mary (1697) he was indicted before the jury of tinners (whereof the writer of these lines was summoned for one) amongst other things, for putting hard heads of false metal and lead in the midst of slabs of tin, melted and cast in his blowing house, in testimony whereof some pieces or slabs thereof was cut in pieces, and the fallacy detected; whereupon the Grand Jury returned the bill of indictment, indorsed (sic), Billa Vera. But on his trial there was given a verdict of acquittal.‘
Trying to work out which Tobias and Mary Lanyon were ‘next of kin’ was a challenge. There are several Tobias Lanyons and lots of Mary Lanyons. I was able to eliminate any that died before 1767 when Abel died, any that were dead before 1779 when a lease was assigned which named them both as co-administrators. (Source – CRO X473/94). Tobias Lanyon gent of Penzance was mentioned in a mortgage assignment (Source-CRO X446/5) which seemed to preclude the Gwinear Tobias Lanyons.
There was a suitable candidate: Tobias Lanyon the son of Francis Lanyon and Phillipp Nicholls (Botrea branch) and he had a spinster sister called Mary Lanyon.
Tobias was baptised in Sancreed in 1702 and in 1717 ‘Tobias son of Francis Lanyon, gent, was apprenticed to John Tonkin of Penzance, tobacconist.’ Tobias never married and died in 1778.
His sister Mary was baptised at Sancreed in 1690, she too never married and died in 1779.
But that still didn’t explain how they were related to Abel Angove.
A plaque in Illogan church lists both Abel Angoves and names both wives as Jane.
Memorial Plaque Illogan Church
Jane Phillips was the wife of Abel Angove the younger but who was Abel’s mother?
There is no record of a marriage for Abel Angove senior. His wife was called Jane and that’s as much as we know for certain. It does however seem likely that she was a Lanyon.
I found Abel’s will:
The Will of Abel Angove of Illogan 1740
I Abel Angove of Trevonson in the Parish of Illugan and County of Cornwall Gent resigning my Soul to Almighty God my Creator in hopes of his mercy and forgiveness through the alone Merrits and Intercession of my most Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ doe by this my last Will and Testament dispose of my Real and Personal Estate as followeth I give unto my most dutifull Daughter Lucy Angove the Sum of One Thousand Pounds in lieu and Bar of a Instrument in Writing Tripartite dated Eleaventh day of June One Thousand Seaven Hundred and Thirty the one half to be paid her within Six Months after my decease and the other half to be paid her within Nine Months after the Six Months before mentioned and the farther Sum of Five Hundred Pounds to be paid her within two Years after my decease and alsoe Ten Pounds to buy her Mourning the which Ten Pounds I doe order my Executor hereafter named to pay at my decease I Give unto the Poor of this Parish the Sum of five Pounds I mean those that receive no Pay from the said Parish to be distributed by my Executor within one Month after my decease I give unto my most dutiful Son Abel Angove all my Lands Goods and Chattles that I dye posses’d of in paying my Debts and Legacy’s And I do hereby make and constitute my said Son Abel Angove Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all other Wills at any time heretofore made by me declaring this to be my last Will In Witness whereof I have to this my Will (the whole Written with my own hand) Sett my hand and Seale this first day of August 1740 Abel Angove
(Attestation Clause)
Mary Lanyon _ Edward Angove Junr._ Richard Gribbell Proved at London 15 September 1741
Source: National Archives ref: PROB 11/711/373
Transcribed by Ros Dunning and reproduced with permission of Cornwall OPC.
Sadly it doesn’t mention his wife or her family. Jane died in 1740 a year before he did.
It didn’t take long to find a suitable candidate: Jane Lanyon the daughter of Tobias Lanyon and Jane Tresilian of Sancreed. Tobias was the brother of Francis Lanyon and uncle to Tobias and Mary the co-administrators of Abel’s estate.
Whilst I have no proof that Jane Lanyon was Abel Angove’s wife it does seem likely.
William was baptised at Sancreed in 1680, the son of William Lanyon and Jane Keigwin. We don’t know the name of his wife but his sons John & Thomas lived at Fowey (see the post ‘Fowey Boys’).
A William Lanyon of Sancreed was excommunicated on 16th Jan 1722 for contumacy (stubborn refusal to obey or comply with authority, especially disobedience to a court order or summons). Source NA ARD/160/24 – National Archives Archdeanery of Cornwall.
William was excommunicated by Lancelot Blackburne, the Bishop of Exeter.
Lancelot Blackburne – Attributed to Joseph Highmore, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
We don’t know what he did but it must have been bad enough for the Bishop of Exeter to get involved and for William to move to Fowey and raise his children away from Sancreed.
Whilst researching the family tree I discovered that there were several beautiful windows erected in memory of various Lanyons. Whilst the photos are included on the site along with the individuals concerned I thought it worth creating a page with all the windows together.
I’d like to thank Dr Mark Charter the webmaster of Cornish Stained Glass Windows https://www.cornishstainedglass.org.uk for permission to use the photos.
Camborne Church
Christ healing the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda.
Made by Alexander Gibbs 1864. Erected by Charlotte Lanyon (Reynolds) in memory of her husband Edward who died in 1861. (Post about Edward in Gwinear Branch – Christ and the Impotent Man!).
St Allen Church
Chancel East
Christ saves Peter from drowning.
Made in 1874 possibly by Lavers and Barreau. Erected by Henrietta Lanyon in memory of her parents Henry Lanyon and Isabella Lanyon. (Post about Henry & Isabella in St Allen branch – ‘Captain Cork!’)
Detail of Christ saving Peter
Lanyon Arms and family motto ‘Vive ut Vivas’.
Nave North 3
Made in 1889 by Arthur Louis Moore
Christ’s commission to Peter: “Feed my sheep” – Panel 1 in memory of John and Peggy Lanyon of Henver. (Post about John and Peggy in St Allen branch – ‘Henry and Mary Lanyon’s Sons’.)
Suffer little children – Panel 2 in memory of Simon Lanyon John and Peggy’s fourth son who died at Mineral Point, Wisconsin. (Post about Simon Lanyon in St Allen branch – Henry Lanyon and Mary Searle’s Grandsons part. 1.)
Healing of a man born blind – erected by Simon Henry Lanyon son of Simon Lanyon on his visit to England in 1889. (Post about Simon Lanyon in St Allen branch – Henry Lanyon and Mary Searle’s Grandsons part. 1.)
Detail Panel 1Detail Panel 2Detail Panel 3
Nave North 4
Made in 1910, maker unknown.
In memory of Eliel Lanyon of Henver, son of John and Peggy Lanyon of Trevalsa, St Allen, died 10th October 1909 aged 86.
Detail Panel 1Detail Panel 2Detail Panel 3
St Stithians
North Aisle East
Window erected in memory of Richard Lanyon of Kennal Vale and of Acton Castle, died 8th December 1863 aged 66.
Made in 1864, maker not known.
Decorative panels with diagonal memorial inscription in centre light. Lanyon arms (Polsue).
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.
Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons
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:
Emily & Thomas
Sarah Ann Bull 1860-1889 Sarah developed appendicitis and died at Whitton railway station whilst waiting for a train to take her to hospital.
Sarah Ann Bull
Eliza Jane Bull 1862-1882 died age 20, spinster
Eliza Jane Bull
Elizabeth Emily Bull 1863-1934 married William Davies
Henry James Bull 1865-1947 married Charlotte Tresilian
William Thomas Bull 1866-1956 married Agnes Kock
William Thomas Bull
Albert Edwin Bull 1869-1952 married Lucy Taylor Johnstone
Albert Edwin Bull
Mary Ellen Bull 1871-1954 married Alfred George driver
Mary Ellen, Adelaide Sibella and Caroline Louisa Bull
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.
Henry Scott Lanyon & Maria Westcott
Maria WestcottHenry Scott Lanyon
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.
Henry & MabelHenry Maynard
Albert Vincent 1878-1953 he married Emily Margaret McRorie in 1905 – five children
Albert and Emily
Elizabeth Jane 1881-1933 spinster
Elizabeth Jane
Annie Violet 1882-1973 married Percy Garnet Weaver in 1908 – five children
Annie Violet & percy
Thomas Wescott 1885-1965 married Margaret Ethel Smith in 1909 – three children
Thomas Westcott and Margaret Ethel
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 and Elsie
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.
The Lanyons 