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- ↑ Marjo Barthels, Cuninghame, Marie Polly, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/cuninghame [13/01/2014]
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