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- ↑ "FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION OF WALES|1880-11-27|Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register - Welsh Newspapers".
- ↑ "Wales player database 1872 to 2013". eu-football.info. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ "Thomas Lewis". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
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