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Hi I live in Queensland, Australia so it is impossible for me to get to the record office but it would be much appreaciated if you could find anything on John Prout DAVIS Baptised 3 April 1825, Plymouth. to parents John & Elizabeth (father: Mason) John Prout Davis served in the Crimean War became a Greenwich Pensioner and Married Alice Jackson at St George Church, East Stonehouse in 1856 by Banns. There Children: Adelaide 1858 to 1883 John Prout 1860 William Jackson 1861 James 1864 to 1909 ( I think) Thomas Wallace 1866 Albert Earnest 1868 to 1949 (died in California) Orlando Wallace 1871 Elizabeth Sarah 1873. The father John Prout of the above I cannot find his parents John & Elizabeth when or where they married or births. the only one I have found is his sister Charlotte Williams DAVIS baptised 29 Dec., 1822. John died in 1908 in Plymouth.(he was my GG grandfather) My Great Grandfather was Orlando Wallace DAVIS born 4 Augaust 1871 at 6 Lambhay Street, Plymouth. Married Emma Margaret Pierce 22Feb.,1896 she died then he married Ellen James 1897. Don't know when he died but it would be around 1922 give or take 5 years. If you could find anything I would be greatfull. Thank you for your time. Best wishes Ann

Orlando's death: Deaths Sep 1918 (49%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Davis Orlando W 47 Plymouth 5b 278 Rose

My ancestor Thomas Bluett was a lithographer and collaborated with the artist John Skinner Prout on several projects. John Skinner Prout (1805–1876) was born in Plymouth, England, nephew of the famous English watercolourist Samuel Prout. Prout emigrated to Sydney in 1840, accompanied by his wife and their seven children, hoping to pursue a career in Australia as a professional artist and printer. Amongst the possessions that he brought with him to the colony of New South Wales was a lithographic press, which enabled him to set up the 'J.S. Prout and Co. Australian Lithographic Establishment.' In the first four years of his residence in Sydney, between 1840 and 1844, Prout undertook a number of sketching tours in the districts around Sydney. Prout followed the route of many artists of the period, journeying west across the Blue Mountains towards Bathurst, south to Broulee and the Illawarra district, and north to Newcastle and Port Stephens. Returning from these travels, Prout would work up his sketches into finished works in lithographs, watercolour and oil paint for sale. Whilst Prout was a resident in Sydney he held a number of exhibitions of his work. He also presented lectures on the technique of drawing and painting in watercolour, sold numerous works, and with my ancestor Thomas Bluett, produced a series of lithographic views of the colony, a number of which were published in Sydney illustrated. Due to the lacklustre market for his works, competition by more established artists such as Conrad Martens, and the depressed economic circumstances of Sydney during the 1840s, Prout and his family moved once more, this time to the colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in February 1844. My ancestor Thomas had already moved there and they produced further works together. Here Prout was more successful, drawing the patronage of the Governor Sir John Franklin and his wife. Prout returned to England in June 1848.