Great x4 Grandfather William Coombe

My Great x4 Grandfather William was a father of at least one.

In 1805, William fathered the illegitimate daughter of servant Loveday Bennett (about 19). Their daughter was christened Dinah Coombe, on 11th August 1805 in Sampford Courtenay, but would later go by Dinah Bennett. William was ordered by the parish to pay maintenance - thus why we know his name. On the Order of Payment record, William is described as being of Kigbeare, Okehampton. There is a Kigbeare Manor Farm still in Okehampton today - was this where William lived? Back in 1794, an eleven-year-old Loveday had been apprenticed to Simon Coombe. William may have been the son of Loveday's employer. A William Coombe was born to a Simon Coombe in Sampford Countenay in 1782, making him about twenty-three, if/when he fathered little Dinah. Though this a strong theory - that this William, born 1782, son of Simon Coombe, was Dinah's father - I am yet able to confirm it. That law had to be utilised for William to pay maintenance, implies William may have otherwise been disinclined to financially support the mother of his daughter. I wonder if William and Loveday's relationship was short-lived and reached its end before Dinah's birth.