How to use this website
This website is a simple front-end to an ever-expanding collection of digital materials related to my ancestry and family. In an ideal world, it would be a complete archive in itself, with everything tagged, indexed and cross-referenced, and full details of all ancestors. In actuality, it is whatever material I could find.
Feel free to explore the links. Each link here will take you to the relevant folder in my archive on Google Drive. Most folders have subfolders organised by category (for example, photographs, books, notes).
(Nancy) Shirley (née Martyn) Stevens
Shirley was born on 29 November 1928 in Dubbo, NSW. Her father, Glanville Crawford Martyn, had served in WWI in France (27th Field Artillery), and as a returned servicemen in the lead-up to the Great Depression had little in the way of work opportunities.
Cecily Woodfull (née Pescott) Stevens
Cecily was born in 1900 in Armadale, Victoria, to James Richard Pescott and Ettie Amelia Woodfull, the third of three children. She attended a private girls’ school, where she learned to play tennis (she later became a champion player).
Frederick William Stevens
Fred was born on 3 January 1898 in Camberwell, Victoria, to George Frederick William Stevens, a lighthouse keeper at Wilsons Promontory, and Emma “Pem” (née Daws).
George Woodfull Stevens
George was born on 10 February 1929 in Wooloowin, Queensland. He avoided the fate of being called Valentine (his mother’s preference) by just 4 days.
Glanville Crawford Martyn
Glan was born 21 November 1893 in Tilba Tilba, NSW. His father, John Martyn, was a mining engineer from Cornwall who managed various mines in NSW and Victoria. John migrated via Wales to Pennsylvania, USA, in about 1870.
Ian Bruce Stevens
Ian (born on 27 July 1947 in Brisbane) was the third son of Frederick William Stevens and the first and only child of Nance (Nancy) Alumward (née Sim) Stevens. His early years were spent in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
Pescott family
My father, George Woodfull Stevens, was the son of Cecily Woodfull Pescott. The Pescotts are descended from Joseph Pescod (the name derives from pease cod = pea pod, perhaps because the first Pescod was a pea farmer), born around 1760.