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    How Sheep Swindling led to Prowses in Tasmania
    Ian Mattey
    • Mar 31
    • 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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    Childhood Memories: Mum, Nan, & the Sisters Prowse
    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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    A Prowse Maid in Manhattan
    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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    Recollections from Nancy Susan Boccadoro
    Nancy Susan Boccadoro
    • Apr 15, 2021
    • 6 min

    Recollections from Nancy Susan Boccadoro

    What follows is a transcript of information provided by Nancy over the course of multiple emails with light editing for context and...
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    Prowse or Prouse?
    Ian Mattey
    • Mar 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Prowse or Prouse?

    So, which is it? Certainly everyone in my Prowse circle spells with a 'W' but we also know there were alternate historical spellings,...
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    Historic Canadian Prowses
    Ian Mattey
    • Mar 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Historic Canadian Prowses

    Since heading down the rabbit-hole that is Prowse family history, I've come across several examples of Prowses from Canadian history. One...
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    Our Common Ancestry
    Ian Mattey
    • Mar 6, 2021
    • 6 min

    Our Common Ancestry

    Updated April 27, 2021 with new or corrected information and new pictures. Samuel & Sarah Prowse Many of the members of The House of...
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    Barnstaple - Then & Now
    Malcolm Prowse
    • Mar 6, 2021
    • 9 min

    Barnstaple - Then & Now

    Prowse – the Barnstaple & North Devon Connection A great deal has been written about the Prowse connection with the fringes of Dartmoor -...
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    Becoming Prowse
    Ian Mattey
    • Mar 6, 2021
    • 3 min

    Becoming Prowse

    I've been asked a few times how I came to be involved in documenting the Prowse family tree. So here, in brief, is the story: Some...
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