Susan Prowse-Tako's December Prowse Highlights
Dear Friends and Family, 'Tis the Season and here in the mountains of western North Carolina the Salvation Army volunteers are out in...
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Sue Prowse-Tako
- Nov 1
- 11 min
Susan Prowse-Tako's November Prowse Highlights
November 1795: William Prowse (later of HMS Sirius) accompanied Sir John Jervis to the Mediterranean on board 'Lively' frigate as a...
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Sue Prowse-Tako
- Oct 12
- 11 min
Susan Prowse-Tako's October Prowse Highlights
October 1934: The best-selling novella, “Goodbye Mr. Chips”, by James Hilton, is published in the UK. One of the people presumed to be...
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Ian Mattey
- Sep 5
- 6 min
Giddy at Gidleigh
This past June my wife and I took a month-long vacation through parts of France, Spain, Iceland and England. It seems crazy that two...
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Sue Prowse-Tako
- Aug 19
- 4 min
The D'Oyly Carte/Gilbert & Sullivan/ Keith Prowse & Co./ Paul Revere/ Prowse Farm CONNECTION
One chapter in my latest family history book — "First Do No Harm " - about all of our Prowse medical men and women deviates from those...
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Ian Mattey
- Aug 16
- 5 min
What's in a Desk?
It's not uncommon to have one's memory stirred by some knick-knack or curio found lurking in the back of a desk drawer. But what if the...
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Ian Mattey
- Dec 31
- 6 min
The Prowse Lineage of the Late Gordon Sanson
Preface: Gordon Sanson was an avid amateur genealogist with much research done on the Prowse line. One of his sources was Irwin Prowse's...
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Ian Mattey
- Mar 31, 2022
- 6 min
How Sheep Swindling led to Prowses in Tasmania
This blog was created from content provided by June Aleknavicius with further research and contributions from Malcolm Prowse, Randall...
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Ian Mattey
- Apr 26, 2021
- 11 min
Childhood Memories: Mum, Nan, & the Sisters Prowse
by Simon Knock As promised, what follows are my musings on the Prowse sisters, as I knew them, and, in particular, Mildred and her...
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Ian Mattey
- Apr 23, 2021
- 4 min
A Prowse Maid in Manhattan
In 1921, at the age of 14, Bertha Susan ‘Susie’ Prowse (1906 – 1985), like many, if not most, English girls at the time, left school for...
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