Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia
THE PROWD FAMILY This plaque marks the place where William Prowd decided to settle. William (1817 - 1901). A gentleman farmer from Armagh, Northern Ireland and his wife Mary (nee Doolan 1818 - 1897) arrived in Victoria in 1851. William purchased land in the Parish of Mulgrave north of Ferntree Gully
Road from the crown in 1853. His family consisted of five sons and a daughter, the sons assisting on the farm. William, a devout Anglican, helped to initiate a Sunday School at the Oakleigh Church of
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