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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lions rugby official site – profile of Bob Burnet
- 1 2 3 "The English team". Otago Witness. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 27 April 1888. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ↑ FHL Film Number:6035516 , Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564–1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
- ↑ Lions rugby official site – profile of Willie Burnet
- ↑ 1871 Scotland Census, Parish: Hawick; ED: 11; Page: 8; Line: 8; Roll: CSSCT1871_179
- ↑ Burnet brothers score British and Irish Lions first, Hawick News, 22 June 2013