Ancestors of Matthew Stevens

Cecily Woodfull (née Pescott) Stevens

Cecily Woodfull 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).

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.