The Great Fire in St. John's, Newfoundland, started when a glue pot boiled over. The fire destroyed about 2000 buildings in total, including the largest private home belonging to Robert Prowse (1798-1873) and a total of 12,000 people (57% of the city's population) were left homeless.

Prowse ranges are of a significance greater than the thing they are. They were part of the history of the modernization of Canada and opening of the Canadian West in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The building of the transcontinental railway, completed in 1885, allowed these ranges and other domestic goods, even whole house-kits, to be easily shipped to homesteaders to the West.

Harry Arthur Robin 'Keith' Prowse (1921-2010), our family's Battle of Britain pilot who was shot down in July 1941 and spent the rest of the war years in Stalag Luft 111, the notorious German POW camp famous for its Wooden Horse escape attempt, was freed after experiencing a horrific forced march to escape the advancing Russian army at the end of the World War II. 

Juliet Prowse was a dancer/actress/entertainer born in India, raised in South Africa, died in Hollywood.

Sue Tako at the Armada memorial, Plymouth Ho, 2004 Sue, as everybody knew her, was an avid reader from an early age and her interest in...

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

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...

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...

Susie - age 26 In 1921, at the age of 14, Bertha Susan ‘Susie’ Prowse (1906 – 1985), like many, if not most, English girls at the time,...

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

Update 31 May 2025: Since first penning this blog in 2021 I have spent many more hours researching Prowse/Prowse lineage and have come to...

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...