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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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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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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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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Ian Mattey
- Mar 5, 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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Malcolm Prowse
- Mar 5, 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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Ian Mattey
- Mar 5, 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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