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- ↑ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
- ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
- 1 2 The Great Artists: JMW Turner R.A. William Cosmo Monkhouse 1879
- ↑ Whites Devonshire Directory, 1850. Trades and Professions
- ↑ Exeter Cathedral Archives
- ↑ Whites Devonshire Directory, 1850. Dignitaries of the Diocese of Exeter.
- 1 2 BMD archives
- ↑ 1861 Census
- ↑ National Archive record of Andrew Pridham (Thos Turner) buying land q.v. Devon Record Office 961M-5/T/14
