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- ↑ Cliffe, J. T. (23 September 2004). "Danby family (per. 1493–1667), gentry" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71867. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ HMC 6th Report: F. R. Frank (London, 1877), p. 459.
- ↑ David Hey, Family Names and Family History (London, 2000), p. 104.
