William Lanyon 1680-bef. 1776
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.
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.
The Lanyons 