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References
- ↑ "Surname Database: Index of Surnames".
- ↑ Reaney, P H (1958), A Dictionary of British Surnames, London: Routledge, p. 56
- ↑ Walker-Heneage and Button family and estate papers, Coker Court, East Coker, Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust), retrieved 17 December 2016
- ↑ Collections relating to the families of D'Annville of Bitton, Gloucestershire, and the Le Grand alias Button of Wiltshire and Glamorganshire, 1888, retrieved 17 December 2016
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