Facts about Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh Ancestry

It was no longer news that Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh of First Consultants Hospital who was the fourth Victim of Ebola Virus Disease was a great heroine. She saved Nigerians great embarrassment that would have cost Nigerian lots of lives if She had allowed Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian/American who brought the disease into Nigeria to travel down to Calabar. 


The question is who was this uncanny and Strange Nigerian who alongside other Medical workers of the Hospital risked their lives to contained the virus.

As the name sounds, She's a Yoruba whose lineage is traced to late Nigeria Nationalist Herbert Macaulay of Siera leone whom at the height of his career settled and died in Nigeria.

The late Dr. Adadevoh was the first grandchild of Mrs Sarah Idowu Abigail Adadevoh nee Macaulay, making her a great granddaughter of the late nationalist Herbert Macaulay described as the founder of Nigerian nationalism.

Family Tree Genealogy website has Sarah Abigail Idowu Macaulay as the daughter of Herbert Macaulay's Son. She went on to marry Adadevoh.

According to Family Tree, they have six children listed as follows;

Kwame Adadevoh, Kwaku Adadevoh, Stella Shade Ameyo Adadevoh, Charity Ronke Awoyo Adadevoh, Kowu Adadevoh and Awushi Adadevoh.