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Most of the people in my family tree lived in Victoria, Australia. Their ancestors immigrated from England, Scotland and Ireland.
This file contains information gathered since February 2002. It was then that I began this never-ending quest for minor morsels of information on my ancestors and relations. The information is substantially based on the following;
• Victorian Government Births, Deaths and Marriages records, accessed via www.prov.vic.gov.au and via;
o Victorian Pioneers Index 1836-1888
o Victorian Federation Index 1889-1901
o Victorian Edwardian Index 1902-1913
o Victorian Great Wars Index 1914-1920
o Death Index Victoria 1921-1985
• Public Records Office of Victoria, Unassisted Shipping Index and Assisted Shipping Index via www.prov.vic.gov.au
• International Genealogical Index via www.familysearch.org
• Scottish Genealogical Data via www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
• British 1841, 1851, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 Census
• English FreeBMD project via freebmd.rootsweb.com
• Devon Family History Society data from www.devonfhs.org.uk
• Devon Record Office Research www.devon.gov.uk/dro/homepage
• Substantial research on;
o The descendants of James Wood by George Mandy Winter (1899-1981) and Gerald Winter
o The descendants of Philip Maguire (b circa 1817), by Norman Archibald
o The descendants of Charlotte Prowse (b 1836), by Allan Jerrett
o The descendants of Richard Prowse (b 1796) by Ron Prowse, Faye Young and Carolyn Góbel (nee Prowse)
o The descendants of Benjamin Glover (b abt 1801) by Pat and Ron Winch, and Di Jennings
o The descendants of George Rintoull (b circa 1815) by Warren Lang
o The descendants of John Wilson (b 1805) by Catherine MacKenzie and Ray Mackenzie
o The descendants of Charles Prowse (b 1837) by Peter Watson
• Contributions from many people to web sites such as;
o www.cyndislist.com/austnz.htm
o www.gencircles.com
o www.geneology.com
o www.ancestry.com
o www.rootsweb.com
o www.mytrees.com
o www.firstfamilies2001.net.au
Other sources are listed in the “End Notes”
Note that I have tried to ensure that information is only provided for people who are known to have died, or alternately, were either born before 1908 or married before 1928.
You can search and review our full family history database on the Internet at:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~carlprowse
The data has been collected and collated within the software application “The Master Genealogist” v6 as developed by Wholly Genes Software (www.WhollyGenes.com).
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