In memory of Susan Prowse Tako (1941-2024)
Sue, as everybody knew her, was an avid reader from an early age and her interest in ancient and medieval history developed at Effingham...
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Sue Prowse-Tako
Jan 114 min read
Susan Prowse-Tako's January Prowse Highlights
1 January, 1735: Birth of Paul Revere. Immortalized in a ballad by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for his dramatic midnight horseback ride in...
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Sue Prowse-Tako
Dec 22, 20233 min read
Prowse & Prouse Related Artwork
Note: The following was originally published in a Christmas letter sent in 2015 - minor modifications have been made. Some of our...
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Sue Prowse-Tako
Dec 1, 202314 min read
Susan Prowse-Tako's December Prowse Highlights
Dear Friends and Family, 'Tis the Season and here in the mountains of western North Carolina the Salvation Army volunteers are out in...
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Sue Prowse-Tako
Nov 1, 202311 min read
Susan Prowse-Tako's November Prowse Highlights
November 1795: William Prowse (later of HMS Sirius) accompanied Sir John Jervis to the Mediterranean on board 'Lively' frigate as a...
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Sue Prowse-Tako
Oct 12, 202311 min read
Susan Prowse-Tako's October Prowse Highlights
October 1934: The best-selling novella, “Goodbye Mr. Chips”, by James Hilton, is published in the UK. One of the people presumed to be...
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Ian Mattey
Sep 5, 20236 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20226 min read
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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