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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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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