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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard (1844), "Fenton of Mitchelstown", A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2 ed.), J. R. Smith, p. 605
