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). I currently know little of her life, but I hope that details will emerge in the papers that her son George collected.
Cecily married Frederick William Stevens in about 1924. Their first son, Richard William “Dick” Stevens, was born in 1925. Their second son, George Woodfull Stevens, was born in 1929. Fred was often away, first flying with Qantas, later working for the Department of Civil Aviation, and Cecily had a brittle temper. The marriage ended in about 1945, when Fred was away in New Guinea and Cecily took up with David Davidson, a returned WWI veteran probably suffering from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. They bought a house in Priors Road, The Patch (unnumbered), north-east of Melbourne, where Cecily engaged in her passion for breeding Lilium flowers. David went slowly mad and spent all of Cecily’s money on drink. Cecily eventually moved to Griffith to be near Dick. She died in 1984.
The following link to Cecily’s life leads to a few photographs and biographical notes.