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- ↑ Hanks, Patrick (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Vol. 1. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4. OCLC 51655476 . Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ↑ "Nederlandse Familienamenbank". Nederlandse Familienamenbank (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ↑ Doortmont, Michel (2005). The pen-pictures of modern Africans and African celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison : a collective biography of elite society in the Gold Coast Colony (PDF). Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-14097-2.
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