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- ↑ bc20 – The Blackheath Connection
- ↑ bc20 – The Blackheath Connection
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine Volume 77
- ↑ England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970
- ↑ PCC Will of Thomas Champion in the Service of Honorable United East India Company at Bombay in the East Indies: Proved 1796
- ↑ "Monumental Inscriptions | Kent Archaeological Society".
- ↑ PCC Will of Samuel Champion of New Broad Street London: Proved 24 April 1817
- ↑ London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921