Headstone 230
~ Granite ~ Perforated Celtic cross with rough hewn base, with kerbs and slate footstone
- Charles Edward Boutwood 1857 – 18 February 1937
- Aged 80 years
- Husband of Thurza Phill Boutwood
- Father of Clive Rowett Boutwood
- Thurza Phill Boutwood 1865 – 16 January 1937
- Aged 72 years
- Clive Rowett Boutwood 1890 – 4 December 1940
- Aged 50 years
- Michael Quiller Boutwood 1934 – 20 March 2013
- Aged 79 years
Ancestry records – show Charles was born in Luton, and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, where he exhibited years later. He came to Polperro with his friend, artist Herbert Edward Butler. They were each to marry local sisters Thurza & Sophia Pond. Leaving Cornwall to live in Chicago, USA, he married Thurza in 1889 in New York. Charles helped found the Chicago Society of Artists and after a very full and active life as a landscape and portrait artist, working in both watercolour and oils, he returned to Polperro in 1916.
The first vehicle in Polperro powered by an internal combustion engine using petrol was a 3 h.p. motor cycle, an ‘Armac’, made in the U.S.A., and owned by Charles Edward Boutwood of Hillside on Talland Hill; he registered it in 1907.
Salt in the Cellars, Shelia de Burlet
know as ‘The Young Fishermen’ c.mid-1800’s
Talland Church Headstones 
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