He was baptised on 6 December 1612, at Sandford. He was the son and heir of
Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (c. 1589 – 1654) of Creedy, by his first wife (and second cousin[2]) Juliana Strode (died 1627), 5th daughter of
Sir William Strode (1562–1637), MP, of
Newnham,
Plympton St Mary, Devon, by his first wife Mary Southcott (died 1617), daughter of Thomas Southcott (died 1600), of Indio,
Bovey Tracey.[3] She was a sister of
William Strode (1594–1645), MP,[4] one of the
Five Members whose attempted arrest in the
House of Commons by King Charles I in 1642 sparked the
Civil War. She is shown as one of his seven daughters sculpted in relief on the mural monument of Sir William Strode in Plympton St Mary Church.
Secondly, in or before 1645, to Triphena Reynell (died 1659), daughter of Richard Reynell, MP, of Lower Creedy,[8] Devon, and widow of Nicholas Hunt of Chudleigh,[9] by whom he had one son and one daughter:
John Davie (died 1668), who predeceased his father and died unmarried.[8]
Tryphena Davie (died 1668)
Thirdly, in 1661, to Margaret Glanville (1628–1670), daughter of Sir Francis Glanville,[10] MP, of Kilworthy, near Tavistock, and widow of William Kelly of Kelly, without children.[11]
Davie died at the age of about 67 and was buried at Sandford on 31 July 1678.[7]
Succession
He had no surviving male children and was succeeded by his nephew,
John Davie, 3rd Baronet (1660–1692),[6] the eldest son of his younger brother William Davie (1614–1663), a Barrister-at-Law.[8]
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.719, pedigree of Strode
^Crossette, J.S., biography of Davie, Sir John, 2nd Bt. (1612-78), of Creedy, Devon, published in The
History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983