Sue, as everybody knew her, was an avid reader from an early age and her interest in ancient and medieval history developed at Effingham...

1 January, 1735: Birth of Paul Revere. Immortalized in a ballad by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for his dramatic midnight horseback ride in...

Note: The following was originally published in a Christmas letter sent in 2015 - minor modifications have been made. Some of our...

Dear Friends and Family, 'Tis the Season and here in the mountains of western North Carolina the Salvation Army volunteers are out in...

November 1795: William Prowse (later of HMS Sirius) accompanied Sir John Jervis to the Mediterranean on board 'Lively' frigate as a...

October 1934: The best-selling novella, “Goodbye Mr. Chips”, by James Hilton, is published in the UK. One of the people presumed to be...

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...

One chapter in my latest family history book — "First Do No Harm " - about all of our Prowse medical men and women deviates from those...

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...

Preface: Gordon Sanson was an avid amateur genealogist with much research done on the Prowse line. One of his sources was Irwin Prowse's...

This blog was created from content provided by June Aleknavicius with further research and contributions from Malcolm Prowse, Randall...

by Simon Knock As promised, what follows are my musings on the Prowse sisters, as I knew them, and, in particular, Mildred and her...

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...

What follows is a transcript of information provided by Nancy over the course of multiple emails with light editing for context and...

So, which is it? Certainly everyone in my Prowse circle spells with a 'W' but we also know there were alternate historical spellings,...

Since heading down the rabbit-hole that is Prowse family history, I've come across several examples of Prowses from Canadian history. One...

Updated January 18, 2022 with new or corrected information and new pictures. Samuel & Sarah Prowse Many of the members of The House of...

Prowse – the Barnstaple & North Devon Connection A great deal has been written about the Prowse connection with the fringes of Dartmoor -...

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...