John Davie

The place also where this name long flourished was Uppecott in the parish of Beauford near Great Torrington which hereditarily descended unto it from Gilbert (surnamed thereof) who owned it in Edward II's reign.

Rogers:[11] Subtus jacent Johannes et Mariaa Davie de Orleigh in comitatu Devoniae par amantissimum.

Mercator ille hisce regionibus praeclarus consiliis operibus exemplo Biddefordensibus suis ita benefecit ut commercium heic loci cum illo simul et floruisse et cecidisse paene videatur.

Charitate plenus optima et diffusissima pauperes sustentabat non tam dando quam ad utiles labores Bovocando (sic, i.e. PRovocando) ipse interea factus opulentus divitiis bene partis.

Optimis parentibus monumentum hoc pietatis ergo posuit Josephus filius et haeres ex patris testimento superstes .Which may be translated into English literally as follows:

"Underneath lies the body of Juliana the wife of Joseph Davie of Orleigh, Esq., and daughter of sr. John Pryce of Newtown in ye County of Montgomery, Bar(on)et.

1720 in the 28th year of her age in the small pox to the unspeakable affliction of her husband children and relations and to ye great grieff of all that knew her.

Arms of John Davie (died 1710) of Orleigh Court: A ship with two masts or the sails trussed up and twisted to the masts argent adorned with flags charged with the cross of England on a chief of the second three cinquefoils pierced gules ; crest: A mount vert thereon a lamb passant argent in the mouth a sprig of cinquefoil gules slipped vert . Above the Davie mural monument in Buckland Brewer Church, North Devon [ 1 ]
Colonial House (now the Royal Hotel), East-the-Water, Bideford, built by John Davie, in which original decorative plaster ceilings survive, of significant architectural and historic importance. In front is moored the ship Kathleen and May
The arms of Davie appear as one of about 10 sculpted in stone on the frieze of the Mercantile Exchange (now called Queen Anne's Walk ) in Barnstaple built in 1708 on the quayside. [ 2 ] John Davie may therefore have been a contributor to the building costs, and was possibly a user of the Exchange. The arms of Incledon and Clevland also appear, two of his sons-in-law
Mural monument to John Davie (died 1710) and his wife, west wall of North Aisle Chapel ("Orleigh Chapel"), Buckland Brewer Church , Devon