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- ↑ Henry Harrison, Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary (2013), p. 142.
- ↑ David Dobson, The Scottish Surnames of Colonial America (2003), p. 41.
- 1 2 Adam and Charles Black Company (1904), "Peculiarly pronounced proper names", Who's Who Year-book for 1904, London, England: Adam and Charles Black Company, retrieved 2020-09-18.
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