Manor of Gittisham

The capital estate is Combe, on which is situated Combe House, the manor house of Gittisham, a grade I listed[1] Elizabethan[2] building situated 2 1/4 miles south-west of the historic centre of Honiton and 3 1/4 miles north-east of the historic centre of Ottery St Mary.

The manor of Gidesha(m)[3] is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the 15th of the 28 holdings of Gotshelm, held in chief of King William the Conqueror.

[8] Between 1224 and 1228 Ralph Willington and his wife Olympia built the Lady Chapel in St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester.

[9] Ralph also held (from Thomas de Beaumont, 6th Earl of Warwick (1208–1242) as overlord) the manor of Poulton in Awre, Gloucestershire.

He had children including: Henry William Marker (died 1865), eldest son and heir, a spendthrift who kept his own pack of hounds.

In 1934 he married Rosemary Grace Fairholme, daughter of Edward Fairholme of The Old Vicarage, Penn, Buckinghamshire,[33] but died without children, when his heir (in her issue) became his first cousin Ruth Gertrude Marker (born 1923), a twin daughter of Edward Richard Marker (born 1872) (younger son of Richard Marker (1835–1916) by his wife Margaret Bagot)[33] and wife of John Trelawny (died 2006) of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.