Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet

Origins

Marriages and children

• Firstly to Mary Steadman, daughter and heiress of..... Steadman of Downside, Midsomer Norton, Somerset, by whom he had one daughter:
• *Mary Davie, who married Nicholas III Hooper, who rebuilt Raleigh House on an adjacent site slightly higher up the hill, which building survives today. Without children. Mary Davie was the heiress of her mother's estate at Downside, which she settled on John Hippisley-Coxe, the builder of Ston Easton House in Somerset, the husband of her half-niece Mary Northleigh of Peamore, Exminster, MP for Totnes, by his wife Margaret Davie, half-sister of Mary Davie ). John Hippisley-Coxe erected the surviving mural monument to Mary Davie in Sandford Church, inscribed as follows:
• Secondly he married Abigail Pollexfen, daughter of John Pollexfen, by whom he had a further four daughters:
• *Margaret Davie, wife of Stephen Northleigh of Peamore, Exminster, MP for Totnes.
• *Frances Davie, wife of Sir George Chudleigh, 4th Baronet, who built Haldon House near Exeter in Devon.
• *Elizabeth Davie, died an infant
• *Tryphena Davie

  Death & succession