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References
- 1 2 Learn about the family history of your surname, Ancestry.com , retrieved 12 February 2011, which cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 , for the surname "Phelps".
- ↑ Learn about the family history of your surname, Ancestry.com , retrieved 12 February 2011, which cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 , for the surname "Philip".
- ↑ Reaney, Percy Hilde (1995), Wilson, Richard Middlewood (ed.), A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 349, ISBN 0-19-863146-4 .
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