It is much to be wished that some one learned in the Celtic language,
perhaps a native of Britany, would investigate the derivations of all
the names of places, of hills, and of rivers, after visiting their
localities.
Car, in composition, is probably the same as cairn or kairn a rock,
and din is a fortress; but these do not seem likely to take up the
Saxon termination ham, an house or dwelling.
Glynn has not, in all probability, any connection with the Saxon words
gline or glen. A word of very similar sound in one of the Celtic
dialects denominates a spear, and this agrees with the family arms,
which are Argent, the heads of three fishing-spears or tridents, with
their points downwards, two and one, Sable. A new house was built at
Glynn by Mr. Edmund John Glynn, son of Serjeant Glynn, distinguished
in the political dissensions of Mr. Wilkes. The house was accidentally
consumed by fire before the whole interior had been completed. The
walls, however, were not much injured, and the building will probably
be restored. It is now the property of the Right Hon. Gen. Sir Hussey
Vivian.
Serjeant Glynn succeeded to his elder brother’s son, a young man said
to be possessed of considerable abilities and even learning, but of
such singular and eccentric habits, that he remained for years without
speaking a single word, communicating his thoughts by writing. A
verdict of lunacy was at last obtained against him at the Cornwall
Assizes, but much to the general dissatisfaction of the country, as
interested motives were readily imputable to the uncle; and his mother
felt so strongly on the subject, that being heiress of an ancient
family, Nicholls of Trewane in St. Kew, she devised nearly the whole
of her possessions, in honour of her son’s name, to Mr. Glynn of
Heliton; probably of the same stock, but very distantly related.
This parish measures 7750 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 3029 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 429 17 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 552 | 662 | 775 | 728;
an increase of 32 per cent. or nearly one-third in 30 years.