lost in a game of cards ? - Buckland Brewer, Devon
Ornate wall memorial carved with angels, cherubs and skulls to John Davie 1710 +++ , wife Mary Luscombe 1709 & daughter in law Juliana Pryce who died of smallpox 1720
Top inscription in latin in memory of John & Mary Davie
"Subtus jacent Johannes et Maria Davie de Orleigh in Comitatu Devoniae Par Amantissimum. Felici olim Juncti Connubio, Nec jam Dissiti Sepulchro. 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 Provocando Ipse interea factus, Opulentus Divitiis bene partis. Aderat omni tempora dilecta Conjux Maria Mater Familias Pia, Constans, Frugi, Pudica. Marito fida Curarum omnium Socia et Solamen perpetuum. Obiit: Hic Vicesimo Septimo Octobris 1710 Illa Quarto Aprilis 1709 Optimis Parentibus Monumentum Hoc, Pietatis ergo Posuit Josephus Filius et Haeres ex Patris Testimento Superstes".
(Beneath lie John and Mary Davie of Orleigh in the County of Devon, the Beloved Pair. Happily once united in Marriage, Not now separated by the Grave. That merchant of Biddeford, famous in these regions, by his plans, works, and the example, so benefited them, that the commerce of this place seemed to flourish and fall at the same time. Present at all times, he was full of the best and most diffused charity & goodness
His beloved Spouse Mary, mother of families Pious, Constant, Frugal, Chaste. To a faithful husband, the companion of all cares, and perpetual comfort.
He died here on the 27th of October 1710
She on the 4th of April 1709
This Monument was placed in piety & testament to the best of parents, by Joseph their son and heir)
"Underneath lies the body of Juliana the wife of Joseph Davie of Orleigh, esq, and daughter of Sir John Pryce of Newtown in ye county of Montgomery, bart, who departed this life the 3rd of February 1720 in the 28th year of her age in the small pox,. to the unspeakable affliction of her husband, children & relations, and to ye great grieff of all that knew her. She was a woman hat was indued with as much beauty, vertue & goodness as ever lived or ever died. In sad remembrance, this small stone is erected to her memory by her unhappy, but faithfull partner"
Juliana was one of 4 daughters of John Pryce 3rd. Bart. 1657 and Anna-Maria 1712 daughter of Sir Edmund Warcup (or Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Pryse of Gogerddan)
Her sisters were Anna Maria died unmarried on the 27th May 1735, Elizabeth & Penelope
The Pryce family have memorials in Northmoor church Oxon
She m Joseph 1723 son & heir of John Davie 1723 of Bideford & Mary Luscombe
Children
1. John II Davie (d.1761), m1Juliana daughter of Richard Musgrave of Stone, Somerset, by whom he had issue; m2 (2nd husband) Mary (d.1754), daughter of Sir William Courtenay, 2nd Bart-1735 of Powderham,
(John Davie (died 1793) (son by father's 1st wife), who in 1763 at Atherington m Eleanora Basset, sister and heiress of Francis Basset ( 1802) of Umberleigh and Heanton Punchardon in Devon. - Their son Joseph Davie Basset 1846 === born "Joseph Davie" assumed the surname "Basset" under the terms of his maternal inheritance from the Basset family)
John Davie (1640-1710 +++ ) was a tobocco merchant, and as an alderman in 1682 took statements in the Bideford witch trial. . In 1684 he bought Orleigh Court which was was inherited by his heir Joseph Davie. Joseph embarked on a series of improvements to the interior. These included, in the hall, the installation of an ornamental fireplace, and the addition of fire buckets decorated with the Davie arms and the date 1721 — which remained in place until the early 20c Other additions made at this time included a new inner hall accessed from newly created doors by the side of the fireplace, and rainwater heads on the east front of the building, which bear the Davie arms as well as those of Pryce, The building stayed in the Davie family until 1807, when it was in the ownership of Joseph Davie Bassett, === who built Watermouth Castle and moved there. In that year Orleigh Court was either sold, or according to local tradition, lost in a game of cards, to Major Edward Lee. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/N10J8PVD70
- Church of St. Mary & St. Benedict , Buckland Brewer Devon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Pryce,_1st_Baronet
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pryce-224
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lost in a game of cards ? - Buckland Brewer, Devon
Ornate wall memorial carved with angels, cherubs and skulls to John Davie 1710 +++ , wife Mary Luscombe 1709 & daughter in law Juliana Pryce who died of smallpox 1720
Top inscription in latin in memory of John & Mary Davie
"Subtus jacent Johannes et Maria Davie de Orleigh in Comitatu Devoniae Par Amantissimum. Felici olim Juncti Connubio, Nec jam Dissiti Sepulchro. 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 Provocando Ipse interea factus, Opulentus Divitiis bene partis. Aderat omni tempora dilecta Conjux Maria Mater Familias Pia, Constans, Frugi, Pudica. Marito fida Curarum omnium Socia et Solamen perpetuum. Obiit: Hic Vicesimo Septimo Octobris 1710 Illa Quarto Aprilis 1709 Optimis Parentibus Monumentum Hoc, Pietatis ergo Posuit Josephus Filius et Haeres ex Patris Testimento Superstes".
(Beneath lie John and Mary Davie of Orleigh in the County of Devon, the Beloved Pair. Happily once united in Marriage, Not now separated by the Grave. That merchant of Biddeford, famous in these regions, by his plans, works, and the example, so benefited them, that the commerce of this place seemed to flourish and fall at the same time. Present at all times, he was full of the best and most diffused charity & goodness
His beloved Spouse Mary, mother of families Pious, Constant, Frugal, Chaste. To a faithful husband, the companion of all cares, and perpetual comfort.
He died here on the 27th of October 1710
She on the 4th of April 1709
This Monument was placed in piety & testament to the best of parents, by Joseph their son and heir)
"Underneath lies the body of Juliana the wife of Joseph Davie of Orleigh, esq, and daughter of Sir John Pryce of Newtown in ye county of Montgomery, bart, who departed this life the 3rd of February 1720 in the 28th year of her age in the small pox,. to the unspeakable affliction of her husband, children & relations, and to ye great grieff of all that knew her. She was a woman hat was indued with as much beauty, vertue & goodness as ever lived or ever died. In sad remembrance, this small stone is erected to her memory by her unhappy, but faithfull partner"
Juliana was one of 4 daughters of John Pryce 3rd. Bart. 1657 and Anna-Maria 1712 daughter of Sir Edmund Warcup (or Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Pryse of Gogerddan)
Her sisters were Anna Maria died unmarried on the 27th May 1735, Elizabeth & Penelope
The Pryce family have memorials in Northmoor church Oxon
She m Joseph 1723 son & heir of John Davie 1723 of Bideford & Mary Luscombe
Children
1. John II Davie (d.1761), m1Juliana daughter of Richard Musgrave of Stone, Somerset, by whom he had issue; m2 (2nd husband) Mary (d.1754), daughter of Sir William Courtenay, 2nd Bart-1735 of Powderham,
(John Davie (died 1793) (son by father's 1st wife), who in 1763 at Atherington m Eleanora Basset, sister and heiress of Francis Basset ( 1802) of Umberleigh and Heanton Punchardon in Devon. - Their son Joseph Davie Basset 1846 === born "Joseph Davie" assumed the surname "Basset" under the terms of his maternal inheritance from the Basset family)
John Davie (1640-1710 +++ ) was a tobocco merchant, and as an alderman in 1682 took statements in the Bideford witch trial. . In 1684 he bought Orleigh Court which was was inherited by his heir Joseph Davie. Joseph embarked on a series of improvements to the interior. These included, in the hall, the installation of an ornamental fireplace, and the addition of fire buckets decorated with the Davie arms and the date 1721 — which remained in place until the early 20c Other additions made at this time included a new inner hall accessed from newly created doors by the side of the fireplace, and rainwater heads on the east front of the building, which bear the Davie arms as well as those of Pryce, The building stayed in the Davie family until 1807, when it was in the ownership of Joseph Davie Bassett, === who built Watermouth Castle and moved there. In that year Orleigh Court was either sold, or according to local tradition, lost in a game of cards, to Major Edward Lee. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/N10J8PVD70
- Church of St. Mary & St. Benedict , Buckland Brewer Devon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Pryce,_1st_Baronet
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pryce-224
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