We know a fair bit about this branch of the tree but we don’t know how it connects to the main Lanyon tree and it must somehow!

Penwinnick (Penwennack) Estate was near St Agnes in Cornwall.

In 1573 John Lanion was elected Warden of St Ives. (Source – A History of the Parishes of St Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor by John Hobson Matthews P 146 and P 147). He was also listed in 1575 “Payd to Mr Laynyane for iiij trees”.

Around 1596 John Lanion gent bought the Penwinnick Estate in St Agnes (later sold to Edward Noy, cousin, in 1622). So who is this John Lanion?

On the 1569 Muster Roll for St Agnes there is a John Lanyne listed. He is the only John Lanyon (all name variants checked) listed on any muster roll at this time. Which begs the question ‘where is John Lanyon (esq) listed?’ Both Johns are probably of a similar age so why is only one listed on the muster roll? Could the John Lanion gent who was elected Warden of St Ives and the John Lanion gent who bought the Penwinnick Estate actually be John Lanyon Esq or his younger brother who was also called John?

I think it more likely that the John Lanyon of Penwinnick Estate was the second son of Richard Lanyon esq and the younger brother of John Lanyon esq.

There are few surviving records from this time. One of the earliest entries at St Agnes is the marriage of John, son of John Lanyon gent who married Tamsin Tapprell on 22nd Jun 1596.

John Lanyon & Tamsin Tapprell

John and Tamsin married at St Agnes but soon went to Breage where most of their children were born.

We know very little about John and Tamsin. John’s last child was baptised in 1620 but it’s not clear if Tamsin was the mother to all of them. John was buried in London at St Andrew, Holborn on 1st Jun 1640. He’s listed in the burial register as ‘an ancient gent’. He was living at Grey’s Inn Lane with his eldest son.

John had nine children, we don’t know if Tamsin was mother to all of them:

• John aft. 1596-1661 married Anne Goldsmith
• William 1600-1643 married Susannah Burdon
• Margareta 1605-1682 married Thomas Glynn, gent and Mayor of Helston, Oct 1635. Seven children. John Lanyon of Plymouth’s will of 1674 states ‘…to every grandchild of Aunt Glynn and my cousin Thomas Glynn and his wife £10 for a ring…’ Margareta was buried at Gwinear on 9th Dec 1682 ‘wife of Thomas, gent’.
• Jana 1607-1608 died in infancy
• Franciss 1609- no further trace
• Thomas 1613- married Anne/Amy Tarrant 1639 London. Thomas is aged 28 therefore born about 1611.

• Philip 1615-1688 married Agnes Gubbs
• Nicholas 1618-1674 married Dorothea Wilmot Waringe, the illegitimate child of Lord Charles, Viscount Wilmot in 1647 at Saint Bartholomew The Less in London. He had properties in Essex and Nottinghamshire. They had no children although she had four children from her first marriage to a man called Waringe/Warren. In his will of 1674 he left ‘all to wife Dorothea Warren’
• Jana 1620-1698 she is described in the parish register as daughter of Johis and Janae, could her father have had a second wife after Tamsin? She married Thomas Trewoola, gent of Towednack in 1647 at Helston. No children traced. Her cousin John Lanyon of Plymouth mentions her in his will of 1674 ‘…to cousin Jane Trewollah £50 more in consideration and satisfaction of the £5 I received from Uncle Glynn to improve her advantage.’ There is a burial of a Joan Trewhela widow at Towednack in 1698, possibly her.

Did John of Penwinnick remarry?

There is a document at Kresen Kernow dated 16th May 1623 – St Agnes – Penwennick – John Lanyon the elder gentleman and wife Jane and their sons John and Edward assign lease to Edward Noye. (Source GP/17). There is another document dated 30th Dec 1608 – St Agnes. John Lanyon of St Agnes, gent and Edward Lanyon (John Lanyon’s second son) 1 quarter of Penwennacke. The first document seems to confirm that John of Penwinnick did indeed have a wife named Jane and he also had a second son called Edward who was not found in the baptism register but must have been born before William who was baptised in Aug 1600. There is no record of Tamsin Tapprell being buried or of a marriage to Jane. Thomas Tonkin suggests that she is Jane the daughter of William Whitta, the previous owner of Penwennick Castle.

We’ll follow John, William and Philip Lanyon’s interesting lives in the post ‘Chief Engineer to Charles I’.

It’s difficult to know where to place Sarah on the Lanyon tree. We have very little information about her. This is my attempt to fit her in.

The De Banco Roll – Trinity 4 Henry V (1416)

Tredyn Lands – The plaintiffs – John Nanfan and Robert Vyhan sued their cousin Benedict Molure all three being sons and heirs of Geta, Isabella and Joan Penneck, granddaughters of David Lanyein.

So from this document we know that Geta, Isabella and Joan Penneck were graddaughters of Sarah Lynyen and great grand daughters to her father David.

Charter of 1284

“John de Leynen to David his son and William de Trenyer chaplain and to the heirs of the body of the said David by Marina his wife. Charter with warranty of all his lands and messuages in the towns of Lennyen, Resik, Bossewolonwyan, Polgon, Hendrenythyn, Boswolnel and Trengwenton, with two mills corn and fulling in Lenyen, and the rent, service and homage of Ralph de Pendyn and his heirs for land there, and of Michael Penneck, Sarah his wife and their heirs for land in Trethyn by Treudreuen.”

Dated Lanyen Friday before St Peter’s Chains 12 Edward I

From this document we know that Michael Penneck was the husband of Sarah and held lands at Trethyn. David was the son of John de Leynen and was married to Marina and held lands at Lanyon and Rissick that were still held in the 17th century. From the De Banco Roll we know that David had a son-in-law called Penneck so it seems logical to place Sarah as his daughter.

There is also a David De Linien who was a witness to a Charter of Glasney College dated 10th October 1267. Advowson of St Sithney Church by Roger de Skyburriow.

But there is also a mention of a David de Lynyen on the Lay Subsidy Roll of Madron 1 Edward III (1327) he was assessed at 4 shillings? Is he David de Lennyen or his son David de Kylminawis or another David altogether?

Therein lies the problem with researching families at this time you don’t know for sure who the documents refer to.

This post is about the grandsons of Henry & Mary, the sons of John & Peggy, William & Jane and Henry & Elizabeth.

John & Peggy’s Sons

William Lanyon 1810-1898

William was John & Peggy’s eldest son, he was born almost four weeks before they married in Dec 1810. In 1833 he married Mary Ann Bennett at St Allen, they emigrated to Wisconsin, USA before 1840. He was a blacksmith and ironmonger. He and Mary had fifteen children, fourteen sons and one daughter who died in infancy.

• William 1834-1908 he was born in St Allen, he was a produce merchant at Mineral Point Wisconsin, in 1855 he married Maria Thomas – seven children
• Josiah 1835-1835 died in infancy
• Mary Ann 1836-1840 died in infancy
• Cyrus 1838-1838 died in infancy
• Cyrus 1839-1904 he was a lawyer and he married Mary Jane Vivian in Wisconsin in 1865 – no children traced
• Josiah 1841-1924 married Jane Trevorrow at Iowa, Wisconsin in 1862. He set up a machinist shop and foundry and a zinc smelting business in Pittsburg with brother William. They had extensive zinc interests, buying ore and owning three smelters. He was also a director of Joplin National Bank. They had five children.

• John 1843-1906 married Francis Jones in 1867, he was a hardware merchant – seven children
• Henry 1846- 1851 suffocated age 5 in a blacksmith’s furnace
• Simon 1847-1911 worked as a machinist, married Mary Simmons in 1879, she died in 1883, they had no children. His second wife was Kate Richards, they married in 1901, no children.
• Albert Charles 1850-1935 he worked as a contractor in a cement works, he married Margaretta Stupinsky in 1876 in Michigan, no children. He married her sister Minnie Stupinsky in 1929, no children.
• Samuel 1851-1927 was a ‘moulder’ and worked in a machine shop, he married Jennie Williams at Grant, Wisconsin in 1884, they had one son who died age 2.

• Edwin Vincent 1855-1923 he was a blacksmith and married Augusta Imogen Sherman at Mineral Point in 1876. Five children. In 1912 he married his brother Simon’s widow Kate Richards.

• Robert Henry 1855-1923 was a machinist at a zinc mine, he married Clara G Gorseline at Jasper, Missouri in 1887, they had four children

• Delos B 1856-1864 drowned in a cistern

William senior and Mary Ann Bennett were married for 65 years.

Henry Lanyon 1812-1876

Henry was the second son of John and Peggy Vincent. He was working as a farm labourer at Polstein, St Allen when he married Grace Rose Anna Bennett in 1839. He later worked as a butcher and farmer. They had nine children:

• Olivia 1840-1917 was a dressmaker and a farmer in Hertfordshire, spinster
• Ellen 1842-1848 died young
• William 1843-1925 born in St Allen married Charlotte Couch at Northill, Cornwall in 1875 and moved to Essex, he was a farmer, two children, one died in infancy

• Henry 1846-1886 was born in St Allen and married Mary Hancox Raby at Lancashire in 1873. Henry was a commercial traveller in drapery, based in Exeter. Four children. He died aged 40 of congestion of the lungs, pleuro pneumonia and congestion of the brain, coma.

• Ellen 1848-1924 married Nathaniel Reed, a farmer, at Bodmin in 1870 and later moved to Hertfordshire. Seven children.
• Simon D 1849-1933 he was born in St Allen but emigrated to Wisconsin in 1870. He was a farmer and a coal merchant. He married Ellen Treseder in 1871 – six children.
• James 1852-1924 he was a farmer and married Mary Grace Reed at Lewanick in 1884. They had four children, three died in childhood. In 1911 he married again to Martha Helen Souden at Plymouth. He lived in Hertfordshire. He left a will leaving his estate to his only surviving son James with an unusual clause:

“….provided he does not marry a relation by blood as I wish to mark my great objection to marriage between blood relations ….”

Last Will & testament of James Lanyon Probate 13th Aug 1924

(This clause was sent to the High Court and found to be invalid.)

• Edith 1854-1940 the census lists her as a farmer and a spinster, she died in Hertfordshire in 1940.

• Edwin 1857-1922 he was also a farmer, in 1890 he married Mary Ellen Hayne at Camelford, Cornwall, she died of Typhoid fever in 1893 and in 1895 he married Mary Anne Keast at Truro. They moved to Hertfordshire and Edwin died at Bishops Stortford in 1922. They had one daughter.

Simon Lanyon 1815-1888

According to the stained glass window in St Allen church Simon was the fourth son of John & Peggy. His brother Josiah was baptised after him but may have been born before him as the Chicago census estimates his birth year as 1811. Another child must have died before he was baptised and does not appear in the records. Simon married Mary Batten at St Allen in Jun 1838, three months later their son Simon Henry was born. By 1840 they had emigrated to Wisconsin. He was a farmer. He and Mary had nine children:

• Simon Henry 1838-1897 he was a zinc manufacturer and capitalist! He married Emily Matthews Dabb and they had two sons, Alvin and Arthur. Alvin was one of the richest men in Pittsburg, Kansas and both he and his brother Arthur were cashiers at the National Bank of Pittsburg. Simon kept a diary about his journey back to Cornwall in 1889. During his trip he arranged for a memorial window to be erected in St Allen church.

Photos: Simon Henry, Alvin and Arthur

• Mary Ann Batten 1841-1917 Mary was the first Lanyon born in America! She married George Carter at Wisconsin in 1872, one son
• William John 1843-1918 he was a farmer in Nebraska he married Elizabeth Jane James at Grant Wisconsin in 1866 – seven children

• Caroline 1844-1904 married Elijah Webber in 1875 lived in Pittsburg, Kansas – two children
• Josiah 1846-1855 died young
• Sophia 1848-1859 died young
• Robert James 1850-1858 died young
• Reuben Searle 1853-1903 he was a zinc dealer married Martha Jane Bennett in 1880 at Wisconsin and lived in Joplin, Missouri. Seven children.
• Franklin Watson Samuel Vincent 1859-1892 married Lavon Curtis Willard in 1884 at Crawford Kansas, four children

Josiah Lanyon 1816-1898

There were three Josiah Lanyons baptised within eighteen months of one another: Josiah baptised March 1815 the son of William Lanyon and Peggy Exter Richards, Josiah baptised 18th Jun 1816, the son of Simon Lanyon and Dorothy Hoskins and Josiah baptised 26th Jun 1816 the son of John Lanyon and Peggy Vincent.

Josiah the son of John and Peggy married Esther Brenton at St Merryn in 1838, they then headed to London to make their fortune. Josiah was working as a carpenter when in 1844 aged 29 he got into a fight with Thomas and Lucretia Pike. He was charged with stabbing, cutting and wounding Thomas with a screwdriver and beating Lucretia. Josiah was drunk and lucky to be found guilty of a lesser crime and sentenced at the Old Bailey to just a month in Newgate prison.

Along with his brothers he emigrated to Wisconsin where he worked as an undertaker and cabinet maker. In the 1880s they moved to Chicago and he died there in 1898.

He and Esther had nine children:

• Elizabeth Caroline 1839-1910 she was born in Newington, Surrey and married Gilbert, Belden Maxfield, a labourer, in 1859- four children
• Esther 1841-1927 born in Newington, married Byron Purinton, a farmer, at Iowa Wisconsin in 1860 – five children, she died in California in 1927
• Kate 1843-1899 born in London, married Samuel Hocking, a smith, at Mineral Point, Wisconsin in 1867- seven children
• John Brenton 1845-1931 born in London, he was an undertaker like his father, married Mary Hopper in 1870 and in the 1880s moved to Chicago – four children
• Mary Jane 1847-1931 married her widowed brother-in-law, Samuel Hocking in 1901, no children
• Charles Henry 1849-1925 was a harness maker he married Ann Whistler in 1875, one child who died in infancy
• Richard Norman 1852-1935 he was a sign painter and a shipper of clay goods, he married Harriet Emma Buck in 1873 at Ontario Canada, they lived in Chicago and had ten children
• Byron 1855-1925 he was a jeweller and watchmaker and married Sarah Wilson at Alameda California in 1878, they had one child
• Frederick William 1859-1930 was a salesman, he married Gertrude Beale in 1885 and they had two daughters. In 1903 he married Katherine Bauman Astleford at Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Paul Lanyon 1817-1897

Paul was born in 1817 and baptised in 1824 at St Allen. He was a farmer and married Johanna Kendal in 1846 at St Mawgan in Pyder, Cornwall. By 1870 they had emigrated to Wisconsin and then onto Omaha Nebraska where Paul and Johanna both died in 1897.

Paul and Johanna had five children:

• John 1817-1897 he was a farmer at St Mabyn in Cornwall. In 1869 at St Neot he married Olivia Stephens, three children. Olivia died in 1875 of TB and in 1876 John emigrated to Wisconsin where he married Annie Lavinia Sherrell, they had six children together, they moved to Minnesota and he died there in 1911.

• William Henry 1852-1932 emigrated to Wisconsin in 1867, he was a physician and married Evalyn Trobee, they lived in Joplin, Missouri and had three children
• Samuel Searle 1856-1929 he was a druggist he married Eva Dena Hagan in 1895 and they lived at Omaha, Nebraska – two sons
• Esther Ann 1857-1925 married George Theodore Brazee at Lafayette Wisconsin in 1881, one son. She died at Omaha. Nebraska in 1925

• Anne Louisa 1859-1940 married Charles H Graham, a glass stainer, three children. She died in Manhattan in 1940.

Robert Lanyon 1829-1909

Robert was born at St Allen in 1829 He emigrated to Wisconsin and in 1854 married Mary Ann Grose Curnow at Mineral Point. He was a wheelwright and wagon maker and later worked in the smelting business. They had two sons:

• Robert Henry 1857-1933 he was a smelter manufacturer and appears to have had an illegitimate child with Rachel Beecher in 1877, Albert Beecher, Robert then married Minnie Stearns Snow in Crawford Kansas in 1886. They had five children.

• William 1862-1938 was a smelter owner and married Annie Georgine Willette at Williams Ohio in 1888. They moved to St Louis, Missouri and had four children. William was described in his son Robert’s marriage announcement as: the ‘ex-mayor of Pittsburg, Kansas and millionaire mine and smelter owner”. His son was described “…has given up his course at Yale and married Miss Alice Lillian O’Connor, 19 years old, a vaudeville actress. They were married in New York.”

John Lanyon 1832-1916

John was born abt 1832 and baptised in 1837 at St Allen. He emigrated to Wisconsin in 1855 and married Annie Plimmer in 1866, she died in 1867 and he married again to Amelia Osborne. John was a grocer and dry goods merchant. They had three children:

• John Everett 1869-1917 he was a salesman in a shoe store. Bachelor
• Nettie B 1875- aft. 1940 spinster
• Arlington Osborne 1877-1958 he was a post office clerk and married Lucile M Reed at Joplin, Missouri in 1902, two children

Samuel Lanyon 1833-1908

Samuel was born in 1833 and was twenty three years younger than his elder brother William. He was a woollen cloth buyer and Manchester draper and married his first wife Cecilia Edwards at Camborne in 1860. She died in 1866 “after a painful illness, the beloved wife of Mr Samuel, draper.” (her illness was TB.) They had two children:

• Frederick Vincent 1861-1923 he was a draper’s assistant and a clerk and a bachelor and died at Helston in 1923
• Herbert Hyne 1865-1866 died in infancy

Samuel married again this time to Lucy Ellen Brown in York, England in 1868. They had four children and emigrated to Chicago.

• Lucy Florence 1869-1901 born in Manchester, England and died in Illinois, USA, spinster
• Eleanor Mabel 1872-1906 born in Manchester and died in Illinois, may have married someone called Keyes
• Edith Ellen 1877-1925 born in Manchester and died in California in 1925, spinster

• Samuel Herbert 1879-1961 born in Manchester and married Florence Lee Foljambe in Cuyahoga, Ohio in 1904. He was the manager of a street car company, he died in California in 1961. They had two daughters.

Eliel Lanyon 1824-1909

Eliel was John and Peggy Lanyons second youngest son, he never married or had children. he was a farmer of 100 acres and lived at Henver in the ‘old house’ where John and Peggy had lived. He was also a methodist lay preacher and is remembered in a beautiful stained glass window at St Allen church.

This is where we must leave John & Peggy’s sons and grandchildren. So many of them emigrated to the United States especially Wisconsin. John and Peggy like so many parents with emigrant children probably never saw them again once they had left. If letters were exchanged they probably took months to arrive and yet Simon Henry Lanyon returned to St Allen in 1889 and erected a beautiful stained glass window in their memory even though he would have been too young to remember them.

In a family that likes to perpetuate the same names every generation I find it unusual that there is not a single daughter with the name Margaret or Peggy. Out of at least 62 grand children there are no Margarets or Peggys and just 5 grandsons named John.

Richard and Elizabeth had a huge family, we’re following some of their grandsons and a grand daughter in this post. The sons of William & Peggy Exter Richards, the sons and daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Vincent and the sons of Robert and Grace Roberts.

William & Peggy’s Sons

We’ve already written about Josiah and Reuben in the post about the East Wheal Rose mining disaster. William and Peggy had eleven children and William also had an illegitimate son with Ann Jolly. To make things even more confusing he had two sons both called William!

William Lanyon 1812-

William was baptised in 1812 and married Elizabeth Gill Bishop at St Allen in 1835. They had five children:

• Eliza Jane 1839-
• William Nicholas Bishop 1841-
• Mary Elizabeth 1843-1844 died in infancy
• Matthew Henry 1845- possibly in Wisconsin and still alive after 1920
• Mary Elizabeth 1846-

William may have died in 1864 and his wife in 1873 in Cornwall but I’m not sure and there are so many Williams and Elizabeths that it is difficult to pin them down.

William Lanyon 1816-1883

This William was the illegitimate son of William Lanyon and Ann Jolly who was a farm servant at Tolcarne. He was a miner at Newlyn. William married Nanny Swan at Newlyn East in 1844 and they had two children:

• Elizabeth 1844-1918 she married Moses Morrish, an agricultural labourer and they had six children
• William Jolly 1848-1863 died young

John Lanyon 1818-1882

John was a miner and a farmer. He married Johannah Roberts at St Allen in 1838 two months before their first child was born. They had eleven children:

• William 1838-aft. 1851 no trace after 1851
• Jane 1841-1891 she married Edward Ripper, a miner, in 1862 and had two sons
• Cyrus 1844-1904 married Mary Jane Richards – four children emigrated to California, USA.
• Eliza 1846- no further trace
• Hubert 1848-1902 was a dairyman he married Myra Brewer – five children
• Francis John 1850- lead miner no trace after 1871
• Simon 1852- miner no trace after 1871
• Selina 1855-1905 married Frederick Bunt in 1877 – three children
• Josiah 1857- married Elizabeth Kernick – four children emigrated to New York in 1892? no further trace
• Reuben 1863-1913 married cousin Mary Ellen Lanyon no children
• Annie 1866-no trace after 1881

John died in 1882 in Cornwall but we lose track of quite a few of his children, presumably they emigrated.

Francis Lanyon 1821-1876

Francis was a shoemaker and an engine engine driver. In 1845 he had an illegitimate son with Maria Wilton:

• John Francis Lanyon/Wilton 1845- there is a John Wilton working as a labourer on the railways in Liskeard who may be the same person.

In 1855 Francis married Alice Meryfield who had an illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth. They had four children:

• Ruben 1860 – a Reuben Lanyon born about 1860 emigrated to Queensland in 1879, it may be the same person
• Sabey 1861- not on 1871 census so presumably died
• Joseph 1862-1937 was a decorator he married Rosina Jane Brickwell Higg in 1887 at Bethnal Green – three children
• infant son 1864 – died age 3 days

Jocelyn Joseph Lanyon 1827-1882

Jocelyn was a copper miner and later a life insurance agent. He married Grace Coplestone at Bodmin and they had five children:

• Hubert Charles 1853-1868 died young
• Alfred John 1855-1923 married Jane Brown who died giving birth to their first son Joseph who also died in 1889. He then married Alice Battersby in 1890- six children
• Minnie 1856-1919 married George Cooke at Wigan in 1883 – three children
• William Henry 1859-1860 died in infancy
• Annie 1861- not on 1871 census presumably died

The family moved to Wigan in Lancashire.

Richard & Elizabeth’s Sons

Richard Lanyon and Elizabeth Vincent had thirteen children, we’re following the children of Richard 1809-1878, Robert Vincent 1814-1894, Bella 1816-1894 and Elizabeth 1810-1893.

Richard Lanyon 1809-1878

Richard was a farmer of 40 acres at Polstein, he was also the innkeeper at Zelah public house. He married his cousin Catherine Lanyon at St Clement in 1842, she was the daughter of Simon Lanyon and Dorothy Hoskins. They had eleven children:

• Simon 1846-1865 – Simon was killed in a mine accident aged just 19.

Coroner’s Inquest Simon Lanyon

Local and District News.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, an inquest was held at Zelah, before E. T. Carlyon, Esq., deputy coroner, on the body of Simon Lanyon, of the above place, who was accidentally crushed to death under the bob of the engine at Cargoll mine. A verdict of “Accidental death” was returned.

Royal Cornwall Gazette 24th March 1865

Transcribed by Adele Cutlack – reproduced with permission of Cornwall OPC

• Richard 1847-1901 he emigrated to Victoria Australia and was a pioneer farmer. He married Alice Pixton in 1876 and they had seven children. He died of liver disease aged 53.

• Robert 1849- he’s on the 1861 census and then no further trace
• Edwin 1850- he’s also on 1861 census and then no further trace
• Emma 1853-aft.1911 she married James Hicks in 1895 – no children
• Elizabeth 1855-1856 died in infancy
• Henry 1855-1855 died in infancy
• Paul 1857-1857 died in infancy
• Mary 1859-1946 she emigrated to Australia and married George Wamage at Manly in 1883, they had three children including a son called Sirodian Walatamay Wamage! (Known as Norman!)
• Eliza 1860-1890 – spinster
• Louisa 1866-1867 died in infancy

Richard senior died in 1878 and his wife was admitted to Bodmin Asylum in May 1889 and released a year later, she was described as a pauper. In Mar 1892 she was readmitted, described as a lunatic pauper and she died there in 1894.

Elizabeth Lanyon 1810-1873

Elizabeth was the second child to be named Elizabeth, the first had died aged two in 1807. In 1831 she married her cousin Henry Lanyon, the son of her great uncle Henry Lanyon and Mary Searle. They had twelve children:

• Albert Cornelius 1834-1887
• Mary Searle 1835-1882
• Simon Searle 1837-1859
• Emily 1838-1888
• Henry Scott 1893-1903
• Lewis Edwin 1841-1886
• Elizabeth Catherine 1842-1908
• Sarah 1844-1904
• Obed 1846-1914
• Isabella 1848-1913
• Louisa Ellen Jane 1850-1928
• Eliza Ellen 1852-1943

We have covered them in the post “Henry & Mary Lanyon’s Sons”.

Robert Vincent Lanyon 1814-1894

Robert was a butcher and a farmer. He married Elisabeth Bowden at Perranarworthal in 1844. They had nine children:

• Charles 1845-1921 he was a butcher and farmer, married Jenny Grigg Tinney and they had eight children
• Emma Jane 1846-1848 died in infancy
• Robert Henry 1847-1850 died in infancy
• Emma Jane 1850-1926 married William Tinney, brother to Jenny Grigg Tinney, a farmer – five children
• Elizabeth Ann 1852-1874 died young of TB
• Olivia 1854-1947 married Josiah Clark, a farmer, no children
• Annie 1858-1949 spinster
• Catherine (Kate) 1860-1936 married Thomas Augustus Powell in 1887, he was a district manager for an insurance company – no children
• Ellen 1862-1930 married Charles William Michael at Kenwyn in 1883, they emigrated to Australia – seven children

Bella Lanyon 1816-1894

We must mention Bella Lanyon, she was Robert Vincent Lanyon’s younger sister and possibly the first Lanyon in Ballarat Australia. For many years she was betrothed to Thomas Johns but her parents weren’t keen on the marriage as Thomas had made it clear he wished to emigrate and they didn’t want to ‘lose’ their daughter. In 1853 at the age of 37 she finally married him without her parents’ consent and they emigrated to Melbourne Australia, aboard the ship ‘Madagascar’. They had seven children:

• Mary Johns 1854-1854 died in infancy
• Amos Johns 1854-1855 died in infancy
• Luke Johns 1856-1931 he was a teacher, preacher and taught temperance classes. His first wife was Prudence Hilliard who died of TB shortly after their daughter May was born. he married again to Emily Parker and had two more children: Violet and William who was killed at Gallipoli.

• Annie Johns 1857-1938 spinster
• Mary Johns 1859-1860 died in infancy
• Emily Johns 1860-1941 spinster

• Wesley Johns 1863-1933 Methodist preacher who married Elizabeth Davies. As a child he had beautiful gold curls and this saved his life when he was lost as a little boy in the Ballarat gold fields and was spotted by his hair!

Thomas Johns was a miner and mine agent and he was also the unofficial dentist in the gold fields. His dental instruments were displayed for many years at the Ballarat Museum! A memorial window to Thomas Johns and Bella Lanyon was erected at Ballarat Methodist Church by their daughters Annie & Emily Johns.

Robert and Grace’s Sons

Robert married Grace Roberts at Probus in 1817. They had nine children and this post is about their sons Robert and Edwin.

Robert Lanyon 1819-1920

Robert was a centenarian! He was born at Gorran in 1819, he was a farmer of 300 acres and he married Elizabeth Pound at St Michael Caerhays in 1842. They had four children:

• Robert Henry 1842-1926 married Fanny Trestain, one son also called Robert
• Caroline 1844-aft. 1901 married Frederick Taudevin a grocer and draper born in Guernsey – several children
• Ann 1846- no trace after 1851
• Georgina 1846-1923 born the same year her mother died married Richard Jennings – seven children

In 1849 Robert remarried. He married Charity Rosevear at St Mewan. They had four children:

• Edwin 1850-1936 also a farmer married Catherine Lelean in 1893 – no children
• Frederick John 1851-1926 was a farmer, he married Elizabeth Colliver Kirkin in 1897, they had two children Alice who died in infancy and Frederick Donald who emigrated to Canada.
• Grace abt. 1850- she married Capt. WL Williams in 1871, there was a Grace Williams who died in Bombay in 1913 which may be her
• John 1855-1926 farmer, bachelor

Edwin Lanyon 1822-1870

Edwin married Ellen Brewer at Tiverton, Devon in 1849. He was a commercial traveller. They had five children:

• Ellen 1851-1874 died young not married, she contracted Typhus
• Edwin 1853-1896 he was a bank manager, he married Georgiana Jennings in 1890 in Plymouth, Devon. One son also called Edwin.
• Emily 1856- no further trace
• Julia Evelyn 1858-1884 married Edward Walter Ward in 1883 and died a year later, no children, she died of meningitis
• Frederick William 1859-1924 emigrated to Australia and married Mary Brown at Sydney in 1884 – three sons, two died in infancy

Edwin and Ellen both died within a few weeks of one another in 1870 in Devon. Edwin died of chronic pneumonic phthisis (TB) and Ellen of a goitre (2 months).

Here we must leave this branch of the tree.