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References
- ↑ 'The borough of Ilford', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5, ed. W R Powell (London, 1966), pp. 249-266. British History Online
- ↑ Essex Churches - St Clement's Church
- ↑ "Chelmsford Diocese" (PDF). Quarterly Paper of the Rangoon Diocese Association (97): 7. January 1921. [Note: This source has two pages numbered "7", in error. This citation refers to the first of them]
- ↑ Sowton, Stanley (1950). Blind Eagle: Father Jackson of Burma. Eagle Books.
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