• Born: 1776, Gwinear, Cornwall
• Christened: 23 Nov 1776, Gwinear, Cornwall ²
• Died: 2 Apr 1866, Village, Gwinear, Cornwall
• Buried: 6 Apr 1866, Gwinear, Cornwall ³

  Research Notes:

Co-executor and a residuary legatee of his father's Will (1802)

Residuary legatee and co-executor with his brother Tobias of their mother's Will (1830). His mother also bequeathed him £5.

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In 1841 William Lanyon, aged about 65, farmer, and brother John Lanyon, aged about 60, ind[ependent], were living in Wall, Gwinear, Cornwall.

In 1851 William Lanyon (78) of Gwinear, farmer, and brother John Lanyon (74) of Gwinear, were living in Wall, Gwinear.

In 1861 John Lanyon (85) of Gwinear, unmarried, retired farmer, was boarding in Lanyon Vean, Gwinear.

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John Lanyon of Village died aged 90 years (burial record).

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LANYON—At Gwinear, April 2, Mr John Lanyon, late of Lanyon, in his 90th year.

Royal Cornwall Gazette, 12 April 1866, p. 5