Author: Boyle, John Magor
Biography:
BOYLE, John Magor (1797-1885: ancestry.co.uk)
John Boyle, the father of John Magor Boyle, was a seaman who converted to Methodism in 1787. He became a preacher in 1790 and moved to Cornwall where, in Kenwyn on 10 Sept. 1794, he married Elizabeth Magor, the daughter of a prominent Methodist. John Magor Boyle was born in Kenwyn on 8 Nov. 1797. Nothing is known about his education but by 1841 he was working as the secretary of the poor law union in St. Austell, Cornwall, and had married Mary Agnes Lennox, daughter of John and Mary Lennox. No record of the marriage has been located. The 1841 Census shows that they had five daughters (including one set of twins) and three sons; their address is given as Blowing House Hill, St. Austell. By the time of the 1871 Census, Mary Boyle had died and John was living with his brother, a general practitioner, at Perranarworthal, Truro. In 1881 he was a boarder at 5 Croswyn, St. Ewe, in St. Austell. He died there on 27 Apr. 1885 after paralysis of some weeks duration. Magor is spelled Meager on his death certificate which identifies him as an artist. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis states that Boyle spent time in America but no evidence for that has been located. (Bibliotheca Cornubiensis; ancestry.co.uk 21 June 2023; John Lenton, John Wesley’s Preachers [2009]; death cert. from AA)